These libraries have many community programs by Jill McKinstry and Anne Garrison A CRL President Betsy Wilson hosted a lively discussion at the ACRL President's Discussion Forum during the ALA Midwin ter Meeting in Washington D.C. The forum highlighted three academic libraries that have shown leadership in partnering within their communities to build more enriching envi ronments. The success of the featured part nerships dem onstrated unlimited potential for librarians to show leadership in reach ing out to groups beyond the campus bor ders. With vision and commitment, collabo rative outreach programs can translate into concrete activities that are exciting, energiz ing, and, often unexpectedly rewarding to all. Wilson believes that collaboration is criti cal to the success of libraries today. As com munity leaders turn to libraries for help in solving social problems, w e are in a unique position to share the depth and breadth of our knowledge base and training. Julie Todaro, dean of library services at Austin Community College and the creative energy behind the discussion forum, reminds us that the them e of information literacy is the basis for many of the current community partnerships, such as "service learning," "en gaged learning," "K-l6 efforts," and other co operative outreach programs.
, began by stating that the traditional pur pose of academic libraries is to support the research and teaching on our campuses. How ever, scholars are changing their methods, and we need to change as well. Caldwell said that the answer to the ques tion is "It depends." The world, scholars, and libraries are all changing, and all three are inter acting in different ways. Huge changes are about to happen in the world, but it is difficult to pre dict the future by looking at the past as a guide. Accurate predictions of the future may seem so wild to us right now that no one would believe them. Yet, we need to look 20 years out, not 5 years. If we only look 5 years ahead, then we only deal with the immediate. We should in
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