Full Description
Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environment, impact, and future directions of academic libraries in the Caribbean. This work presents a fresh approach to global academic library literature, featuring a uniquely Caribbean voice, and a futures mindset, while bridging critical gaps and charting new pathways forward. It features forward-thinking case studies, research findings, and historical perspectives from information professionals across the French, Spanish, and English-speaking Caribbean region.
Chapters illuminate transformative stories of libraries reimagining their responses to cultural shifts, redefining their purpose, and pioneering practices for engaging communities. Authors highlight triumphs and challenges in surpassing user expectations while navigating declining budgets, resource constraints, leadership issues, technological advancement, climate change, and post-pandemic realities.
Caribbean academic libraries are positioning themselves as future catalysts—supporting teaching, learning, and research while becoming engines of knowledge creation, institutional transformation, and regional development.
Contents
Introduction - Continuing Change, Constant Engagement: Caribbean Academic Libraries at the Forefront of Transformation; Paulette A. Kerr, Jessica Lewis Marshall, Nicola A. Palmer, and David A. Drysdale
Section 1. Impact and Engagement of Caribbean Academic Libraries
Chapter 1. Kenneth Ingram: A Legacy of Scholarship and Stewardship in Academic Librarianship; Demar D. Ludford
Chapter 2. Creating Impact in Academic Libraries through Collaboration; Nicola Prawl, Pauline Nicholas, Kareen Lawrence, Yolanda Tugwell, and Vergie Lee Reid Lawson
Chapter 3. Documenting Communities through Partnership: Building a More Comprehensive History of the Panama Canal with the Caribbean Diaspora; Casma Cockburn-Henlon, Betsy Bemis, and John Nemmers
Chapter 4. Leveraging Shared Resources through Collaboration: A Historical and Analytical Study of the College Libraries Information Network (COLINET) in Jamaica; David A. Drysdale
Chapter 5. Assessing Information Skills towards Effective Learning: Libraries at the Forefront; Ivette Maldonado-Rivera
Chapter 6. K@Fé : A New System in Information Literacy for Undergraduates; Éliane Falco
Chapter 7. Empowering through Information Literacy: A Case Study of TVET Librarians in Jamaica; Nicoleen Saunders-Grant, Janice Harrison, Collett Sanderson-Allen, and Monique Forgie-Scott
Chapter 8. The Role of Academic Libraries in Academic Integrity Development in Caribbean Higher Education Institutions; Ruth Baker-Gardner
Section 2. Staffing in The Academic Library: Changing Roles and Classic Practices
Chapter 9. Navigating Caribbean Academic Librarianship: Reflections on a Storied Career; Paulette A. Kerr
Chapter 10. Empowering Library Employees through a Mentorship Initiative: The Case of The University of the West Indies Mona Library; Simone J. Harrison, Barbara D. Waul, and Stacie K. Young
Chapter 11. Transforming Roles of Library Staff through Up-skilling, Retooling, and Job Restructuring: The Case of the UWI Mona Library; Karen C. Levy, Elaine A. Saunches, and Calarine A. Smith Rance
Chapter 12. Preparing Caribbean Academic Librarians: Is the DLIS Programme Ready?; Audrey M. Saddler and Adele Merritt Bernard
Chapter 13. Who the Cap fits: Perceptions of Leadership Capacities among Jamaican Academic Librarians; Nicola A. Palmer
Section 3. Academic Libraries: Critical Challenges, Global Trends, Futures
Chapter 14. Go Green, Embrace Sustainability: Empowering Caribbean Academic Libraries to Enhance Climate Literacy; Jessica Lewis Marshall and Bernadette Worrell-Johnson
Chapter 15. A Post-pandemic Future for Library Planning: Perceptions of Caribbean Academic Library Leaders; Lorraine M. Nero and Kumaree Ramtahal
Chapter 16. An Academic Medical Library in the Caribbean Providing Services Using a Business Continuity Model to Respond to the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study; Ayaana Alleyne Cumberbatch and Niala Dwarika-Bhagat
Chapter 17. The Implementation of the Future of Libraries is Open (folio) at The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) Libraries; Susan Sandiford
Section 4. Communications from the Field
Chapter 18. Connecting Students to Resources: The Role of University of the Bahamas Libraries in Supporting Student Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic; Felicia Armbrister, Virginia Ballance, Berthamae Walker, Antoinette Pinder-Darling, Rosemary Munroe-Whylly, Elsie Bain, and Shananda Hinsey
Chapter 19. Uniquely Common: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Staffing Roles at the Forde Library, University of the Southern Caribbean (USC); Stacyann Quintero and Anastasia Mulraine-Campbell
