Libraries need to move beyond incremental and peripheral development of services, spaces and structures to a more fundamental and radical rethinking of their core mission and service philosophy to realign their resources, processes and practices to contemporary demands. New ways of working are not enough; they must be informed by new ways of thinking that empower librarians to look at all areas of their practice in a unified holistic way through a social lens. Facet Publishing
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The scholarly communication landscape has experienced significant evolution in the past several years with the advent of trans-formative agreements. The largest library systems have made substantial progress in this time by using scale and publishing output to effect meaningful changes in their access and publishing models. Smaller institutions, however, have encountered a different set of challenges that present thorny questions that involve mission, organizational dynamics, and their relation to other stakeholders.
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Libraries have evolved from collections to convening spaces over the past 30 years and the next evolution of libraries will see library leaders and workers advance community building. Leveraging the centrality of their spaces and the appreciative view their communities extend, library leaders and workers can build on the authentic concern we hold for our community’s wellbeing by fostering libraries as places for community transformation, regardless of library type.
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A new mission and model for academic libraries is needed and a more open and automated future holds much promise for libraries willing to embrace a socially-driven future in a vastly more accessible and open scholarly realm.
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Leaders capable of futures thinking are better equipped to handle the incredible rate of change that is taking place around us, including both predictable and unpredictable drivers of change. This article presents several futuring methods and discusses their implications for library leadership.
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