Charleston Trendspotting: Forecasting the Future of Trust and Transparency

The Trendspotting Initiative is a community-engaged process for cooperatively and collaboratively exploring social, policy, economic, technological, and educational trends and forecasting the impacts of these trends on scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries. This session will engage participants in a "Futures Wheel" dialogue to explore the potential implications of policies and events on trust and transparency in scholarly communications and work through what the possible outcomes and effects on our industry could be. How probable are these possibilities? What are the best and worst-case scenarios for these trends on various timelines? What might disrupt these trends that we should be tracking? How can we collaboratively evaluate possible solutions and strategies for these issues? What steps can we take to meet these challenges together? This annual workshop session is always lively and through-provoking. Join us as we consider the future of our industry and the changes that are shaping it!

Publication Date

2023 | Jun 01

45th Annual Meeting (2023)

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"Transformation, Trust, and Transparency" The pace of change in our industry continues unabated, with seismic shifts in areas such as the dissemination of research, business models, and the nature of the workplace. And yet, while pressure for change has become the new normal, fundamental change has proved more elusive. We invite you to join us in highlighting the Trust and Transparency issues that underlie many of the challenges we face and exploring what it takes to create more meaningful Transformation in scholarly publishing.

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.