One of the most important balancing acts for library leaders is between serving the needs of faculty members and students on the one hand and addressing the needs of the parent institution on the other. In a recent study, Ithaka S+R examined both the strategic directions of research universities and some of the most important trends in research practices and research enablement. The result was a research report co-published with ARL and CARL on aligning the research library with the university’s organizational strategy. This panel, facilitated by report author Roger Schonfeld, will feature the perspectives of several leaders at a number of academic libraries about their wider institutional strategy and their efforts to align with that, as well as some of the political and organizational complexities that one can face in pursuing this challenging work in the context of library strategic planning.
One of the most important balancing acts for library leaders is between serving the needs of faculty members and students on the one hand and addressing the needs of the parent institution on the other. In a recent study, Ithaka S+R examined both the strategic directions of research universities and some of the most important trends in research practices and research enablement. The result was a research report co-published with ARL and CARL on aligning the research library with the university’s organizational strategy. This panel, facilitated by report author Roger Schonfeld, will feature the perspectives of several leaders at a number of academic libraries about their wider institutional strategy and their efforts to align with that, as well as some of the political and organizational complexities that one can face in pursuing this challenging work in the context of library strategic planning.
