LCDP BackgroundARL launched the Leadership and Career Development Program in 1997. Over the course of seven LCDP offerings, 119 librarians have completed the program and a large percentage of them have either been promoted within their libraries or have assumed significantly expanded responsibilities within their institutions. The program curriculum is tied directly to ARL's strategic directions:
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Leadership & Career Development Program (LCDP)
2013-14 LCDP Fellows
Seattle, January 2013
Photo by Molly MageeThe ARL Leadership & Career Development Program (LCDP) is an 18-month program to prepare mid-career librarians from traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups to take on increasingly demanding leadership roles in ARL libraries. The LCDP addresses the need for research libraries to develop a more diverse professional workforce that can contribute to library success in serving the research, teaching, and learning of increasingly diverse scholarly and learning communities. This is accomplished, in part, by providing meaningful exposure to the major strategic issues that are shaping the future of research libraries.
The design of the LCDP includes: three institutes; a career-coaching relationship with an ARL library director or senior staff member; training on identifying, developing, and conducting a research project during the fellowship; online discussions and webinars related to the ARL strategic directions; and a closing event and poster session held during American Library Association annual meeting.
