Program from the Fourth Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians.

In July of 2011 the Hesburgh Libraries welcomed a new University Librarian.  Three months later the University announced a staff voluntary early retirement incentive prog[...]

How do you go from a full service library to one with only space for staff? Learn how the Kresge Business Library at The University of Michigan made the transformation to[...]

In 2013 George Mason University research librarians seized the opportunity to craft an exhibit space in the main corridor of Fenwick Library. This article presents advent[...]

This paper, based on the author’s presentation of the same name, discusses a financial literacy partnership between an academic library and a student organization at Penn[...]

Engagement in professional development activities is an expectation for many library faculty and staff. The ways in which librarians grow as professionals has a direct im[...]

Program from the Fifth Conference for Entrepreneurial Librarians.

Virginia Tech’s motto is "Invent the Future." Building on this culture, the University has undergone a massive transformation in the way that it imagines its role on camp[...]

Though libraries have long formed important relationships with academic departments via liaison librarians, the time has come to "sell" library services through non-acade[...]

Innovation is often thought of as doing something completely new. In fact, innovation may also be viewed as an iterative process that builds on existing knowledge and, th[...]

Program from the 2018 Entrlib Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

In January 2016, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty adopted the Open Access Policy, which encouraged faculty to deposit their articles into the Carol[...]

International student outreach should encompass all aspects of librarianship. A necessary step in this process includes aligning engagement efforts with those of the larg[...]

What started as a discussion about how to bring more art into the library developed into a valuable collaboration with faculty and students that brought murals into the a[...]

Liaisonship in academic libraries continues to evolve and librarians need to engage their entrepreneurial spirit to remain relevant in this rapidly changing and dynamic e[...]

The notion of "community outreach" can be complicated for academic libraries, because both "community" and "outreach" can have multiple meanings. While many academic libr[...]

As a librarian at the beginning of her career, the author considers possible near and far-term futures for libraries and librarianship. In this conference proceeding she [...]