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.