Change offers us a valuable opportunity to improve, and the risks we take can lead to meaningful rewards. This keynote panel will share their stories and insights about how they have chosen to meet the challenges of large scale change and grow from them. Lisa Viezbicke, Director of the Morse Library at Beloit College; will address how she feels these big changes have brought big rewards to the library and community.

1. Big Changes, Big Rewards
LISA VIEZBICKE, BELOIT COLLEGE
WILS WORLD 2014

2. Environment c. 2011
Small liberal arts college (~1250 FTE)
Merged library & IT
Flat collection budgets / decreasing non-collections operating budgeting
Doing more with less since 2008
Incremental adjustments within departments
Locally run ILS

3. Ian Worral
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4. Caratello
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5. Catalysts & embraced opportunities
Bestowed
3 retirements
1 staff departure
Donor funded project position
Elective
Strategic plan
ILS migration project

6. Staffing
Departures
2011
◦ Cataloging assistant
2012
◦ Technical services
librarian
2013
◦ Circulation manager
◦ Acquisitions assistant
Recruitment
2013
◦ Collections coordinator
◦ Digital archivist
◦ Consulting librarian
Temporary hires
2012
Project archivist
2013
Project librarian

7. How
Environmental monitoring
Participation
Communication
Mindset
◦ focus on community goals
◦ balance effort to match outcomes
Prompts, reminders & accountability
Before, during, and moving ahead

8. Our rewards
Streamlined operations & collections management workflows
New digital archives program
Focus on access, instruction & outreach
◦ Increased capacity for one-on-one support
◦ Participation in faculty planning & discussion groups
◦ Positioned for new Information Literacy Framework
Workgroups
◦ Built in cross-training / sustainability
◦ Expanding knowledge & participation for all staff
◦ Leadership opportunities
New perspective
◦ Adjusted pace
◦ Energy/content for engagement with campus
So far….

9. Thank you.
Lisa Viezbicke
viezbick@beloit.edu
lisa.viezbicke@gmail.com