THE ART OF PROBLEM DISCOVERY: Adaptive Thinking for Innovation and Growth

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dc.contributor.authorMathews, Brianen
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-02T12:57:55Zen
dc.date.available2013-04-02T12:57:55Zen
dc.date.issued2013-04-02en
dc.descriptionInvited paper for ACRL 2013 Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana.en
dc.description.abstractWhat challenges do students face in the classroom? What issues do faculty encounter when applying for grants? How does the Writing Center plan to help students abroad? What keeps senior administrators up at night? We invest a lot of time and effort discussing library issues, but how well do we know the issues of our constituents? What are the problems, priorities, and possibilities of the people we serve? Higher education is poised to undergo a historic evolution with the introduction of new pedagogies, publishing models, and user preferences. Libraries will not only be asked to adapt, but to help lead monumental changes. This paper presents an innovation strategy designed around growth. By adopting a discovery-oriented problem-seeking outlook and a holistic view of our institutions, librarians can develop an entrepreneurial mindset stretching beyond traditionally predefined boundaries. By advancing the objectives of others, we not only help our organizations succeed, but simultaneously reframe the role, value, and perception of libraries throughout the process.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAssociation of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/19308en
dc.publisherAssociation of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/en
dc.subjectproblem discoveryen
dc.subjectproblemsen
dc.subjectinnovationen
dc.subjectgrowthen
dc.subjectlibrariesen
dc.subjectempathic thinkingen
dc.titleTHE ART OF PROBLEM DISCOVERY: Adaptive Thinking for Innovation and Growthen
dc.typeConference proceedingen

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