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Transforming the Library: The Case for Libraries to End Incremental Measures and Solve Problems for Their Campuses Now
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In an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, University of Texas System Chancellor Mark Yudof wrote, "Mark Twain would recognize the situation. Everyone talks about the governance and financing of higher education, although, as in the case of the weather, few feel that they can do anything about it"[sup1] Much agony has been expressed over higher education's immediate future in the United States and elsewhere, given the movement to regulate academic and financial management from the outside. Many colleges and universities respond to societal pressures by pursuing change in small, incremental steps. Yet those same pressures for accountability, affordability, and access to education require an institutional response that demonstrates agile planning to achieve high performance, including for libraries. What possibilities are there for transformational change in libraries? A case for appropriating transformational models in academic libraries is explored, focusing in particular on libraries in public colleges and universities.
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- Charles Lindblom, a leading student of policy studies, argued that the term "muddling through" expresses incrementalism, or approaching change through small, methodical steps. Incrementalists, Lindblom wrote, "believe that for complex problem solving it usually means practicing incremental- ism more skillfully and turning away from it only rarely" (Charles Lindblom, "Still Muddling Through. Not Yet," Public Administration Review 39, no. 6 [Nov./Dec. 1970]: 517). In a college or university, an academic program under review may be judged by its adherence to continuity, and a library's materials budget may show little deviation over a decade's time beyond its best efforts to keep up with inflation. As Brian Hawkins illustrates, by 2007, purchasing power in eighty-nine of the nation's top university libraries will be 20 percent of that in 1981 should the cost of materials and inflation rates continue to outweigh budget increases in real dollars. (Brian L. Hawkins and Patricia Battin, The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century [Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Informa- tion Resources, 1998], 301). In The Dance of Change, Senge et al. suggest that in organizations change can occur through establishment of pilot groups where ideas can be generated. "Unless some kind of pilot group can coalesce, new ideas in an organization have no incubator, no place where concept can become capability, where theory can meet practice." (Peter Senge et al., The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sus- taining Momentum in Learning Organizations [New York: Currency Books, 1999]: 39).
- Carla Stoffle et al., "Economics and the Transformation of Libraries" (paper presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Minneapolic, Minn., Apr. 1, 2005): 3.
Metadata
- Authors
- Simmons-Welburn, J., Donovan, G., & Bender, L.
- Affiliations
- Marquette University (US)
- Appalachian State University (US)
- University of Arizona (US)
- ORCID
- Donovan, Georgie
- Venue
- Appalachian State University
- Publisher
- Appalachian State University
- Published
- 2008-06-01
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 130-134
- ISSN
- 1945-8851 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1805562086
- Cited by
- 19
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 4.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- llm.corejournals.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Library Leadership & Management (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
- W&M Publish (College of William & Mary) (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion)
- Library administration & management
- Appalachian State University
- Funders
- Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families
- Appalachian State University
- Marquette University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Web and Library Services
- Keywords
- academic libraries, library transformation, transformative change, incremental change, higher education governance, higher education funding, accountability, affordability, access to education, public universities, agile planning
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