Charleston Trendspotting Initiative: Forecasting Changes on the Horizon of Scholarly Communication

Hosted by Against the Grain (ATG) and the Charleston Conference, the ATG Trendspotting Initiative is a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technology, and educational trends and forecasting the impacts of these trends on scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries. These trends and their impacts will be of interest to anyone in the library and publishing field. This session will identify a number of PESTLE trends (political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental) ahead of time by asking for community input. Examples of these trends could be the decline in enrollment for higher education, government regulations around data and privacy, paper shortages caused by supply chain issues, etc. We will then work through what the possible outcomes and effects on our industry could be, forecasting best and worst-case scenarios for outcomes of these trends on various timelines and identifying how they will impact the scholarly communications industry. What are the trends, issues, and external pressures that we should be focused on in the near future? How can we collaboratively evaluate possible solutions and strategies for these issues? What steps can we take to meet these challenges together? Join us for a lively discussion and interactive session focused on the future of our industry and the changes affecting all of us. || Learning Level: Strategic || Speakers: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe; Leah Hinds

SSP Annual Meeting Session Learning Level

Strategic

Publication Date

2022 | Jun 02

44th Annual Meeting (2022)

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“Building a More Connected Scholarly Community” The last 19+ months have been a fascinating contradiction, making us feel both painfully disconnected and also perhaps more bonded than ever before. How can we take the strengths we already possessed as a community, fold in lessons learned during the pandemic, and aim for being an even stronger, broader, and more connected community? Our Annual Meeting brings together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and countless others with a communal interest and stake in the dissemination of scholarly information. We look forward to the 44th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to reconnect and to connect anew.

Leah Hinds

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Executive Director, Charleston Library Conference

Leah was appointed Executive Director of the Charleston Conference in 2017, and has served in various roles with the Charleston Information Group, LLC, since 2004. Leah is also Editor for the Against the Grain (ATG) website and part of the executive team for the Charleston Briefings publication series. Prior to working for the conference and ATG, she was Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions for the College of Charleston for four years.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

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Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction & Professor, University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the 2010-11 ACRL President, she led the launch the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. Lisa is currently Editor of Library Trends, a “chef” of The Scholarly Kitchen, and Chair of the IFLA Information Literacy Section. Other service includes positions in DLF, NISO, ARL, ALA, ILA, and LOEX. Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, privacy, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning.