Change offers us a valuable opportunity to improve, and the risks we take can lead to meaningful rewards. This keynote panel will share their stories and insights about how they have chosen to meet the challenges of large scale change and grow from them. Pat Wilkinson, Director of the Forrest R. Polk Library at UW-Oshkosh will address how he feels these big changes have brought big rewards to the library and community.

4. Focus on . . .
• Technology
• Electronic Resources
Management
• Information Literacy
• Distance Learning

5. • 2 Staff budget lines
not funded
• Staff shrank from
26 to 24.
• 5 new PDs created
• 7 existing PD altered

6. • Library Technology
Services
• A department, not a
person.
• Time to develop and
innovate
• Leader on campus &
beyond

7. • Better coordination
from start to finish
• Better customer service
• Clearer responsibility
• ERMS - CORAL

8. • New University Studies
Program
• Dedicated to Promoting
Library’s Role
• Increase in Instructional
sessions
• ANVIL !!!

9. • Enhanced Strong
Support for Nursing and
Life Long Learning . . .
• New Emphasis by
College of Business
• Intensive Support for
the Executive MBA

10. • Improved Strategic
Communications
• Clearer Organizational
Structure

11. • Big Change Was
Inevitable!
• Learn from Mistakes
• All Staff and Areas are
Critical to Big Change

12. • False Perception that
Big Results Came from
Additional Resources
• New Way of Thinking
• Innovation without new
university funding
• Innovation in a time of
reduced funding