Abstract
SUMMARY Academic Libraries, like all types of libraries, are in transition as they move from books on shelves to bytes on computers. Academic libraries, limited by space and staff to cover their hours of operation, have created 24-hour, digital information commons. The librarian focus on the millennial undergraduate features a virtual library that highlights extensive software suites and modules with computers where students can work collaboratively 24 hours a day, an expanded center for writing instruction, and a center for computer training, technical assistance, and repair. To transition to this type of library can be a challenge for a profession not noted for the embrace of dynamic change initiatives and paradigms. This chapter looks at a number of change-management initiatives and models taken from private industry, looks at how digital resources impact and challenge traditional library workflows, and focuses on new ways these workflows can be altered to accommodate the new electronic information format in the academic library that has rapidly become the norm.
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