Thursday, January 15, 2009

Discussion of Fish Coming Up

As announced back in November 2008, Robert Larremore of Laredo Community College has agreed to facilitate a discussion of our next title, Fish. Our discussion of this title will take place between January 19 and January 30, 2009. It is a quick and interesting read for those who have not read it yet. Those who read it sometime ago might want to dust off their old copy and review it.

Below are the bibliographic details for the book:
Title: Fish
Authors: Stephen C. Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen
ISBN: 978-0786888825

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

About the District 4 Book Club

At the Texas Library Association Annual Assembly District 4 meeting in July 2008 members agreed to establish a District-wide book club focusing on management and leadership issues. We hope that this book club will provide District 4 members with a forum to stay informed about management and leadership trends. We also hope that the book club will serve as a forum for members to share ideas about common professional concerns.

The District 4 Leadership and Management Book Club operates as follows: Any member may volunteer to lead a discussion on a management/leadership title. Please contact a book club coordinator [Kate Horan (khoran@mcallen.net) or Jesús Campos (jcampos@weslacopl.us)] with your proposal. The book to be read is announced on this blog a couple of months prior to the discussion. The last two weeks of the month following the month when the book was announced is the period during which the online discussion takes place. The facilitator will begin the discussion with a question or comment and contributors will post their thoughts and observations to the blog for the benefit of the group. The facilitator will moderate and guide the discussion where appropriate.

In addition to our online discussion, we schedule an in-person Book Club meeting in conjunction with our Fall District meeting.

The book club began with a discussion through the TLA District 4 Members blog in October 2008 of Jim Collins' Good to Great and the Social Sectors. We also discussed this book at our Fall Meeting in November 2008. We have since moved the discussion to this blog location to make it more easily accessible to TLA District 4 members and others interested in participating.