Information For First-Time Library Directors
- Leadership and politics
- Sign up for newsletters and updates
- Connect with your colleagues: attend online and face to face meetings
Leadership and politics
- Get a quick perspective on your new job by reading the Urban Libraries Council leadership briefs.
- Watch YouTube recordings on Public Library Administration in Florida.
- Check out the Fiscal Management and Library Politics webinar (1:22:00).
Sign up for newsletters and updates
- We use Constant Contact to communicate with you.
- As a director, you will receive BLDing Success - Bureau of Library Development News through Constant Contact.
- Sign up for these newsletter and update topics:
- Continuing Education
- E-Government
- Emerging Literacy
- Florida Electronic Library Updates
- Florida Memory Updates
- FLYP Forward – Youth Services Newsletter
- Library Data and Statistics
Connect with your colleagues: attend online and face to face meetings
- The Bureau of Library Development (BLD) provides a variety of face to face meetings and workshops. Contact us for more information.
- BLD provides virtual meetings and webinars. Browse and register for our online meetings.
- Enroll in our leadership programs.
- Watch recordings of webinars on YouTube.
Browse Information for Directors New to Florida for more on what you need to know.
Contact us
For more about public library administration, contact us at dlis.bld@dos.myflorida.com.