Events

As part of the CNI Project Briefing Series, Ellen Carroll and Tracy Bergstrom will explore new findings from Ithaka S+R’s US Library Survey. The 2025 survey cycle examined leaders’ perspectives on the library’s core role, governance, and key dimensions of strategy and operations while expanding the scope of inquiry to include emerging areas of influence, including generative artificial intelligence (AI), developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem, and change management.

Academic libraries are navigating a period of rapid change as they balance financial pressures, evolving campus priorities, and the growing impact of generative AI. Ithaka S+R’s US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure offers a timely look at how library deans and directors are responding to these challenges and preparing their organizations for the future. Synthesizing responses from library leaders at four-year, not-for-profit higher education institutions across the US, this research explores strategic priorities, staffing, budgets, student success, collections, and…

Ithaka S+R Senior Advisor Catharine Bond Hill will be speaking at the 25th annual Back to School Summit 2026, from September 15-27 in New York City. The Summit focuses on the future of education, skills and workforce development, convening leaders across higher education, business, government, investment and technology. Learn more and register here.

At the American Academy of Arts & Sciences convening, Ithaka S+R’s Chelsea McCracken will lead a session on “What we can know and what we should know about the humanities,” sharing what data tell us about the state of the humanities, and what additional information we need to understand where the field has been, where it is currently, and what the future may hold. The convening is scheduled for October 29-31, 2026.