WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF HIGH EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC LIBRARIES IN THE US?
Keep in mind that US higher education is expected to do more and more with less. This creates an internal and conceptual push and pull for most of us. Some of us want to come through these changes unscathed. Yet, it will be downright impossible because changes are beginning to hit home. On the other hand, our higher education system leaders find it difficult to implement drastic restructuring and prefer to resort to incremental changes that leave the underlying structures more or less untouched. This might be good for now, but it might not be enough if the pressures continue to grow. Clearly with the uneven tension created by these forces it is very hard to predict what other changes higher education will have to experience. More so since the incremental changes in American universities do not deal with possible down-to-the-bone across-the-board reductions that can hinder survival. We can almost try to imagine the future of higher education and academic libraries; yet our vision will b
