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Managing Transitions: Using William Bridges’ Transition Model And A Change Style Assessment Instrument To Inform Strategies And Measure Progress In Organizational Change Management, Julie L. Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

Purpose:

As academic libraries redefine their services and roles within higher education, library leaders are charged to implement transformative changes. The biggest leadership challenge in effecting change is the human element: helping employees to embrace and implement the changes necessary for transformation. This paper describes the change management process used by Butler University Libraries in 2013-14 to migrate to a cloud-based integrated library system that streamlined workflows and drove reorganization.

Design, methodology or approach:

The library leadership team relied upon two tools to develop strategies for change management and to track progress in employee perceptions of and participation in implementing …

Staffing The Repository: How To Build Your Team And Use It Effectively, Brad Matthies

Presentations

Brad Matthies, Access Services Librarian and Project Manager for Digital Commons at Butler University, discusses the development of DigitalCommons@Butler, offering valuable suggestions for managing a repository with limited staff and resources.

Among the topics covered in the webinar: using the staff you have available to best advantage; developing successful, scalable workflows; and maintaining momentum over time.

Over the last two and a half years, and with no more than half an FTE dedicated at any one time, Brad and his team have brought Digital Commons@Butler from several hundred objects to over 2,000 objects. Just in the past year, it has …