Welcome to the first full-length episode of Better Library Leaders! Today’s show features a neat discussion with Elspeth Olson, a fellow library podcaster (NPS Break Room Chat) as well as a librarian at the American Bookbinders Museum, a workplace that features a working book Guillotine. Elspeth is also the Chair-elect of the ALA's Library Management and Leadership Association's New Professionals Section. In the Spotlight segment, I share a recent unpleasant encounter I had with our trash dumpster and a mud puddle, and consider the lessons I learned about handling a rough day as a library leader.

Oh, and I get a little snarky about library cats in the News roundup. Please don't unsubscribe, I love cats and I am owned by two of them. (I'm just not on board with the idea of them living in libraries...)

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Knight News Challenge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betterlibraryleaders/permalink/1144257195632618/

Cornell's Wine Library: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betterlibraryleaders/permalink/1145575108834160/

Browser the Library Cat: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betterlibraryleaders/permalink/1142551069136564/ AND https://www.facebook.com/groups/betterlibraryleaders/permalink/1143994858992185/

American Bookbinders Museum: http://bookbindersmuseum.org/

LLAMA NPS: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LLAMA.NPS/

Break Room Chat Podcast:https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/break-room-chats/id1009630856?mt=2

The Library Leader's guide to Bad Days: http://betterlibraryleaders.com/2016/05/26/the-library-leaders-guide-to-bad-days/