Uncovering the Intersections of Personal, Professional, and Instructional Identities, Chapter 3

An increasing focus in higher education on learner-centered teaching and active learning instruction is driving transformation on campuses at the national and international scale.1 The COVID-19 pandemic has also pushed the instructional needs envelope forward resulting in new tools for alternative teaching and learning environments. 2 These campus wide emerging changes have also affected academic libraries that strive to demonstrate impact on their campuses. Libraries are transforming and expanding their roles and responsibilities to adapt to their evolving campuses, but efforts can vary widely based on library context and cultures. Scholars contend that change forces at work in higher education also demand academic library transformational initiatives where librarians rebuild, re-envision, and shift identities to address these evolving campus changes.3