Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios for Future Visioning of a Distance Learning Library Service

Casey, Anne; Cawthorne, Jon E.; Citro, Kathleen

doi:10.1080/1533290x.2014.945834

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“…The exercise did not go well because the adapted scenarios did not reflect enough of the ERAU culture. Shortly afterward, the director, in consultation with Dr. Cawthorne, and incorporating feedback from the staff, constructed a new scenario that she presented at a staff meeting in July (Casey, Cawthorne, & Citro, 2014).…”

Section: The 2013-2016 Strategic Planmentioning

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Grassroots Strategic Planning: Involving Library Staff from the Beginning

Casey

2015

Journal of Library Administration

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Column Editor's Note. This column focuses on the closely related topics of strategic planning and assessment in all types of libraries. The column examines all aspects of planning and assessment including (but not limited to) components, methods, approaches, trends, tools and training. Interested authors are invited to submit articles to the editor at wvdole@ualr.edu. Articles on both theory and practice and examples of both successful and unsuccessful attempts in all types of libraries are invited. In this issue, Anne Marie Casey, Dean of Retention and Student Success at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, reminds us that real life challenges such as staff resistance and reallocation of campus space have serious impacts on planning. She presents a case study of one library's attempt to deal with these challenges by using a variety of methods, including active employee input, appreciative inquiry, and scenario planning to encourage staff buy-in. For the most part, these attempts proved successful.ABSTRACT. Strategic planning is often considered a managerial tool. The management of an organization surveys the environment and develops a plan that they introduce to the organization as a whole. Most modern organizations seek employee involvement in the planning process and feedback to some degree with varied A. M. Casey results. But for one academic library, employee involvement in the development and execution of the strategic plans has been a vital part of the processes. The Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has been developing strategic plans for several years with active input from the librarians and staff. This case study chronicles the different approaches the library staff have used to create new plans. One method was to hold a set of retreats where all library staff provided ideas for new initiatives to explore and old processes to retire. Another involved the SOAR approach, which uses appreciate inquiry to determine strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results. A third method employed scenarios to encourage staff input into the next strategic plan. Each of the different approaches yielded interesting results; some failures and many successes. Some processes were more positive than others but they all included mutually agreed-upon strategies that guided the library as it planned future innovations.

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Grassroots Strategic Planning: Involving Library Staff from the Beginning

Casey

2015

Journal of Library Administration

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“…(4) Using the PBL method in building scenarios supporting library services in long-distance teaching in strategic planning. Creating a scenario for a new strategic plan should be useful for library administrators interested in discovering new ways of planning business (Casey, Cawthorne, & Citro, 2014).…”

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Distance Learning – the Current Status and Directions for Further Research

Szulc

2020

IJREL

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The article aims to discuss current research trends in the field of Distance Learning (DL). It consists of the following parts: (1) the definitions and characteristics of DL; (2) current directions of research in the field of DL, among others: measuring transactional distance in Web-Based Learning Environments, Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in DL, development of learning content and the task for MOOCs, effects of online course efficiency perceptions on Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) measures, new technologies for the DL, the use of metacognitive and affective model Self-Regulated Learning (MASRL), questionnaire (Constructivist Learning on a Scale Higher Settings of Education [CLHES]) as a method of research of constructivist learning environment in higher education, Transactional Distance (TD) theory in DL and online community culture; (3) summary and conclusions with a particular focus on the use of DL methods in higher education. The article is based on the study of literature registered in the databases ERIC, LISA, and LISTA.

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Hunting and Gathering: Attempting to Assess Services to Distance Learning Students

Hebert

2016

Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learn

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Gazing into the Crystal Ball: Using Scenarios for Future Visioning of a Distance Learning Library Service

Cited by 4 publications

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Grassroots Strategic Planning: Involving Library Staff from the Beginning

Grassroots Strategic Planning: Involving Library Staff from the Beginning

Distance Learning – the Current Status and Directions for Further Research

Hunting and Gathering: Attempting to Assess Services to Distance Learning Students

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