UMMS Affiliation

Lamar Soutter Library; Network of the National Library of Medicine Region 7

Publication Date

2022-06-03

Document Type

Article

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Abstract

This article summarizes trending topics in academic librarianship from the past two years–a time of tremendous upheaval and change, including a global pandemic, difficult reflections concerning racial justice, and war between nation states. Rapid changes and uncertainty from these events have created a significant amount of shifts to academic libraries, higher education, and society in general. Such shifts have yielded new perspectives and innovations in how librarians approach delivering services, supporting student success, managing staff and physical spaces, embracing new technology, and managing data. This report attempts to provide a snapshot of developments worth noting.

Keywords

academic libraries, trends

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Copyright 2021–22 ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon the Work non-commercially; although new works must acknowledge the original publication and be non-commercial, they do not have to be licensed on the same terms. See https://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/publicationsfaq.

DOI of Published Version

10.5860/crln.83.6.243

Source

2021–22 ACRL Research Planning and Review Committee. (2022). Top trends in academic libraries: A review of the trends and issues. College & Research Libraries News, 83(6), 243-256. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.83.6.243

Journal/Book/Conference Title

College and Research Libraries News

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

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