Following on from Tuesday’s discussion of “Five Sucky Things about Being a Library Leader,” I’m going to address what I think are five of the best things about being a library director (though I think they translate well into other leadership contexts too). 

Now, to be very clear: I'm not saying these are necessarily the only five good things, or even the five best things – only that they are five of the best things, and of course in this as in most things I write about here, I freely acknowledge that other leaders’ mileage may vary significantly from mine. These are things that, for me, have been really great aspects of the library leadership experience. I present them in no particular order of awesomeness.