Leverage Change and Become Indispensable Building on last year’s successful session, “Adapt, Act and Thrive,” we invite you the second in our discussion series on the sustainable library. You’ll hear from peers and industry experts who know that “adapting” requires reacting positively to change - even
creating change - and ultimately ensuring that change works in the library’s favor. Equally important, librarians themselves can thrive, both personally and professionally, in today’s competitive, cost conscious environment.
You’ll get practical advice on leveraging and creating change to help ensure the sustainability of your library and optimize your own role, based on four important principles:
- Access and discovery – give end users content they want, when they want it; market library products, expertise and services
- Independence – focus on self-sufficiency with regard to software customization and management, as well as with core business processes
- Integration – select software and KM tools and adopt new technologies within the framework of existing systems and information architecture
- Secure organizational support - build credibility with leadership, structure the right teams (even virtual or with vendors), ensure organizational support for your initiatives
Special librarians achieve sustainability by understanding that end user requirements and forces at work (e.g. new technologies, globalization and a mobile workforce) all demand change. This session will focus on practical examples - from people who have built resilient libraries - of how libraries and librarians can thrive in a changing world …and become truly indispensable.
Program Takeaways
- Participants will enjoy actionable advice from change agents who make change work for them as they stay focused on the principles of access, independence, integration and organizational support. Think “change resilience,” not change resistance.
