The document summarizes a presentation about the changing landscape of academic libraries. It discusses how academic libraries are facing critique on cost and role in higher education. Libraries are asked to prove their value and take on new services with stagnant budgets. The presentation examines how professional associations and consortiums are adapting to changes in library work, profession, and developing adaptive mindsets. It outlines topics like the evolving culture and values of libraries, membership trends in the profession, and using evolutionary and revolutionary approaches to change.

1. The Responsive Library
Organization
Understanding our Landscape and
Planning for our Future
Orbis Cascade Alliance | March 2018

2. Abstract
Academic Libraries are part of a rapidly evolving landscape. Higher education is facing
critique based on its cost, its business model, and its place in society. Academic libraries
are being asked to prove their value, add new services and expertise, and face a
landscape of stagnate or shrinking budgets. We do our work in a landscape that is
changing politically, technologically, and economically.
This presentation responds to Kristen Eshleman’s Entrepreneurial University: Innovation
as a Way of Working with an examination of changes in the academic library landscape,
the ways professional associations and consortiums are responding, and a discussion of
adaptive approaches to change and innovation.

3. Outline
The Changing Work of Libraries
● Culture of the Field
● Clarifying Values
● Evolving Work
The Changing Profession of Libraries
● Membership Trends
● Adapting Associations
● Emerging Consortial Work
Adaptive Mindsets
● Evolutionary and Revolutionary Approaches
● Adaptive Cultures
● Change Frameworks
● Deep Context and Systems Thinking

4. Changing Work
of Libraries

5. Changing
Profession of
Libraries

6. Adaptive
Mindsets

7. Outline
The Changing Work of Libraries
● Culture of the Field
● Clarifying Values
● Evolving Work
The Changing Profession of Libraries
● Membership Trends
● Adapting Associations
● Emerging Consortial Work
Adaptive Mindsets
● Evolutionary and Revolutionary Approaches
● Adaptive Cultures
● Change Frameworks
● Deep Context and Systems Thinking