Charleston Trendspotting Initiative

Duration: 35 mins
Publication Date: May 2025

About the session

How can we stay ahead of the trends shaping scholarly communication, publishing, and academic libraries in an ever-evolving landscape? The Trendspotting Initiative is your chance to engage in a dynamic, hands-on exploration of the social, policy, economic, and technological shifts that are transforming our industry. Through interactive group discussions and activities, you’ll dive into the possible futures of trust, transparency, and innovation in scholarly communications. Together, we’ll explore questions such as: How likely are certain trends to disrupt our field, challenging our values? What are the best- and worst-case scenarios we could face in the coming years? And how can we collectively craft strategies to address these challenges? Join us for this lively and thought-provoking annual session, where creativity and critical thinking come together. Whether you're a first-timer or a returning participant, you’ll leave with fresh insights, practical strategies, and a renewed sense of direction as we imagine the future.

Collection

Annual Meeting (2025)

Speakers

Executive Director, Charleston Hub

Leah Hinds was appointed executive director of the Charleston Hub in 2017 and has served in various roles with the Charleston Information Group, LLC, since 2004. The Charleston Hub was acquired by nonprofit group Annual Reviews in 2023, and Leah has served as a director on their management team since then. She is also editor of Against the Grain, managing editor for Katina Magazine, and part of the executive team for the Charleston Briefings publication series, and is part of the program committee for the Fiesole Retreat series. She hosts, attends, and presents at library and scholarly communications events worldwide.
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.