Changing the Culture in Scholarly Communications

“All too often, leaders see cultural initiatives as a last resort, except for top-down exhortations to change… But cultural intervention can and should be an early priority—a way to clarify what your company is capable of, even as you refine your strategy.”

So say Jon R. Katzenbach, Ilona Steffen, and Caroline Kronley, writing in the Harvard Business Review.

We are equally guilty of not prioritizing cultural change in scholarly communications. So I was delighted to see that the theme for this year’s FORCE2017 meeting is Changing the Culture – a great opportunity to engage with colleagues from across the scholarly communications community on key questions such as: What needs to change in our culture and why? Who are our stakeholders and how are we going to involve them? What are the most effective ways to change the culture; which approach works best – carrot, stick, or both? How will we measure success? More

Watching the Future: Tracking Library Trends

2017

Librarians are more relevant than ever. We have no good reason to be on the defense and every reason to take the offensive. Conversation in our field is fraught with too much navel gazing and not enough looking at external evidence that many things are going well. We share too many stories about the bad stuff and too rarely share the successes. Yet we are an adaptive profession. Positive change is our tradition; let’s talk about that!....

An Industrial Revolution for libraries
I love following the folks who are involved in the Startup Library mentality: the ability to grasp and engage in an emerging culture for librarianship focused on change, innovation, experimentation and finding the future. While some worry about a continuing malaise in our field where the stories are all bad and we’re all doomed, I choose to focus on indications of positive, transformational change.


From: Lucidea Think Clearly Blog,   author Stephen Abram
http://blog.lucidea.com/watching-the-future-tracking-library-trends    9/5/2017