tag: PALCI
Blog Post
November 13, 2026
Not About the Library
Earning a Seat Where Decisions Are Made
Last month, I joined a plenary panel at PALCI's Leading with Impact Conference. Our session was built around a predicament many library leaders know intimately: leading within institutions whose priorities were set without them in the room. Budget pressure, turnover in senior leadership, policy shifts, artificial intelligence, accreditation scrutiny, and enrollment volatility are all recalibrating what campuses treat as urgent. The question is not whether libraries matter to that calculus. It is whether the people doing the calculating know it.
Past Event
September 27, 2023
Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) Fall Public Update Webinar
In December of 2022, Ithaka S+R announced participation in a multi-institutional partnership to facilitate the cross-industry development of collaborative library collections, funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services in a grant awarded to the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI), Lehigh University Libraries, and Ithaka S+R, along with 27 other partner organizations. The project aims to create a suite of best practices, prototype middleware, and improve standards in order…