zephyrinnovation.com » Transforming http://zephyrinnovation.com Kathryn Deiss tells you what's new Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en Efforts to Transform http://zephyrinnovation.com/archives/13 http://zephyrinnovation.com/archives/13#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:10:15 +0000 deissk http://zephyrinnovation.com/archives/13 Many university libraries are working to transform how they deliver services, assess and evaluate service and learning, and develop new types of relationships on campus to better influence learning and teaching. There are as many approaches to doing this as there are libraries. And these libraries are using blogging technology to communicate their work and intentions to a broader community. For a long time library strategy conversations were held internally and rarely invited the user community to be a part of them except obliquely through the use of focus groups and surveys.

McMaster University Libraries in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) is one example of a more interactive approach to the shaping of strategy and the conducting of strategic conversations regarding transformation. Unvierstity Librarian, Jeff Trzeciak, has started a blog to open these conversations with the McMaster community. He has also established a Transformation Team to develop recommendations to him and to the rest of the Libraries regarding how to respond to the external environment within which they find themselves.

While there are no community members on the Transformation Team currently I wonder if this is not a way of changing/transforming even while in the process of discussing transformation? I applaud Jeff for starting the blog and appointing the Task Force and wonder how many intersections they will find once they begin to look for innovation (one of the charges to the Task Force).

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