Effective leadership requires understanding many specialized literacies. This course focuses on core literacies for leadership in the field of information: political literacy, legal literacy, facilities literacy, policy literacy, institutional policy literacy, and financial literacy. Each of these literacies is individually important to leadership, and together these literacies form the basis of understanding and navigating many of the contexts in which information institutions exist. An understanding of these literacies in conjunction will prepare future leaders to respond successfully to many of the challenges they will face and embrace many opportunities that arise. This course will explore the key components for each of these forms of literacy; the ways in which they intersect; community engagement considerations within each of these literacies; and the practical implications for each in information institutions and the communities that they serve.