{"id":78512,"date":"2014-08-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=78512"},"modified":"2014-08-06T10:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T15:54:21","slug":"change-does-not-and-will-not-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=78512","title":{"rendered":"Change Does Not and Will Not Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kate Kosturski, Senior Editor, INALJ<\/a>\u00a0Ontario<\/a> and INALJ Quebec<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Change Does Not and Will Not Suck<\/span><\/h3>\n

\"kate_photo_2014\"<\/a>You may have noticed that we went through a few changes here at INALJ last month<\/a> – state page editors replaced by senior editors, and what on earth are these new senior assistant jobs? This was a subtle change, but it also wasn\u2019t an easy change – Naomi had to figure out who was going to become a Senior Editor or a Senior Assistant, who was just going to depart for bigger and better things, and write up new guidelines for all the new roles. \u00a0\u00a0All the existing staff had to adjust to their new roles, which in some cases were wildly different. \u00a0For example, I went from covering the page of the smallest state (Rhode Island) to two Canadian provinces (Ontario and Quebec). \u00a0\u00a0I had to introduce myself to new assistants, research the Canadian library landscape, and work on some very busy pages. It wasn\u2019t easy – ask me how many times a day INALJ Ontario times out on me, or my lame attempts at French via Google Translate with the Quebecois editors. In the end, the change was for the better, both for me and for the organization – I get a chance to grow and work on other pages, and INALJ gets a streamlined staff that will result in more consistent updating of content.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the bottom line in all this? \u00a0While change can be scary, and be a lot of work – it doesn\u2019t have to suck, and it will not suck – as long as you remain perspective and understand the nature of change and how to react to it.<\/p>\n

If you were at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas in June, there was a Conversation Started entitled \u201cChange Does Not Suck\u201d (full disclosure: I was on the panel). \u00a0We discussed change in depth – how to manage it (within yourself and with your colleagues), how to recognize change for the sake of change (and how to prevent it), and<\/p>\n

You can read the wrap-up via Twitter here<\/a>, but I do want to call out a few salient points:<\/p>\n

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