Abstract
In the last two or three decades, digital information technologies have brought a big transformation in libraries. Keeping pace with it technological infrastructure supporting digital information services has been arranged well. With this situation how do libraries make library services to meet users’ information needs? What measures should libraries take to make full use of digital transformation? These are exact issues library leaders are required to deal with. Thus to raise leadership quality is not only a current issue but also a big concern. There are various educational or training programs for new library leaders have emerged in the US. For instance, they are the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute, the National Library of Medicine’s Associate Fellowship Program, and the Syracuse Summer Institute on Leadership and Changes in an Information Society. The author introduces those 9 programs. Then the author describes the program offered by Frye Leadership Institute since 1999 mainly for academic librarians or university administrators in terms of curriculum and results obtained from the program in detail. She also describes Mortenson Center International Library Leadership Program which the Japanese librarians are allowed to participate in.
