[Eril-l] Best of Core Forum Webinar: Calling It Quits: How to Evaluate Library Services and Decide What to Stop Doing

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Best of Core Forum Webinar: Calling It Quits: How to Evaluate Library
Services and Decide What to Stop Doing

Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025

All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11 am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1 pm Central, and 2 pm Eastern time.



Description:

Following a period of disruption, library leaders need to realign service
offerings with current organizational priorities and resources. In this
interactive session, we will introduce a new model that we designed and
applied at our large research library to redefine, reevaluate, and
right-size research service offerings to better align with current staffing
levels and support work-life balance for staff. Our model includes: (1) a
rubric designed to aid in the evaluation of service offerings against
available resources and campus needs; (2) a reusable checklist to support
the sunsetting of services; and (3) a service template to clarify ongoing
services for internal and external audiences. In our session, participants
will use our model to engage in hands-on learning as they assess the
sustainability and resource levels of the service offerings at their own
institution. They will be positioned to identify potential service changes
to align internal and external communication strategies for supported
change. We will also infuse our session with change management practices
that center people and support them as individuals in these change
processes.

Learning outcomes:

At the end of the webinar, attendees will:

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   Develop awareness of a model for evaluating their libraries’ services in
   order to set priorities and plan improvements.
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   Identify best practices from change management in order to effectively
   lead their teams and libraries through challenging processes.
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   Identify best practices from change management in order to effectively
   lead their teams and libraries through challenging processes.


Who should attend?

This webinar is intended for librarians making decisions on the
continuation, sunsetting, and/or staffing of library-offered programs.
Presenters serve in middle management roles in an academic library.

Presenters:

Erinn Aspinall is the Director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the
University of Minnesota. Her career includes work at public health,
medical, and health sciences libraries, including 17 years at the
University of Minnesota, previous experience at the University of New
Mexico and the University of Michigan, and post-graduate work at the NIH
National Library of Medicine. She believes that libraries are at their best
when they mirror the needs of their communities, and has brought that
vision to her work. Her additional interests include organizational
development, and continuous process improvement.

Danya Leebaw is the Social Sciences Director at the University of Minnesota
Libraries. She spent ten years as a social sciences librarian at Carleton
College, and prior to that was a business librarian at Emory University.
Danya earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to becoming
a librarian, Danya worked for nearly a decade in advertising. Her research
is focused on academic library management, librarians, and academic
freedom, often through a critical theoretical lens.

Emma Molls is the Director of the Open Research & Publishing Department at
the University of Minnesota Libraries, which includes computational
research, publishing services, research data services, research information
management, and houses the Data Curation Network. Prior to this role, Emma
was a publishing librarian at the University of Minnesota and a Scholarly
Communication and Social Science Librarian at Iowa State University. Emma
is the past president of Library Publishing Coalition, past member of MIT
Press' Library Advisory Board, current member of the SPARC Steering
Committee and writes about the sustainability and scalability of scholarly
communication programs.


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Registration fees for webinar:  Core Member $57.67; ALA member: $71.10;
Non-member $79.00

For additional information and access to registration links, please go to
the following website:

https://elearning.ala.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1474

Core webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording
shortly following the live event.

For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration at ala.org.

For all other questions or comments related to Core webinars, please
contact Core CE staff at corece at ala.org.

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