I had breakfast this morning with my dear friend and colleague Monique Sendze, now director of IT and innovation for the Tulsa City County Library. It sounds like a terrific job, a terrific library, and I know she'll be successful there. She and I wound up having a conversation I've had three times over the past two days, so it might be worth digging into it a little deeper. The larger frame is that institutions have rhythms: they focus outward, they focus inward. Institutions breathe, too. Sometimes library leaders get curious about their environment, explore it, build relationships, investigate themes and needs. Then they turn in to do something about it - sometimes to strengthen a core that suddenly needs some attention, sometimes to implement a project or vision identified in the outward-looking phase. Then, after that project is done, the possibilities branch. Institutions stagnate. They remain inwardly focused, incurious about their environment, disengaged with la...