The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries: Global Challenges, Local Politics and Strategy Development

NOTE: This title will be available Spring 2026. You may place an order and the item will be shipped when it becomes available. 

This book is for academic library directors and leadership teams as well as those at the start of their careers in academic libraries.

The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores academic library trends in higher education and the wider world. By providing a deep understanding of academic library strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, it will form an essential foundation for effective library strategy formulation and positioning. It examines a highly complex mix of global volatility, campus uncertainty, societal change, evolving perspectives, new pressures, and opportunities for academic libraries. A complete guide to improving the situation of academic libraries and how to advance their positioning in institutions, its chapters cover:

• the changing higher education environment;
• opportunities and threats for academic libraries;
• academic library strengths and their implication; and
• positioning strategies for successful academic libraries.

Item Number: 978-1-78330-690-9
Author: John Cox
Published: 2026
Publisher: Facet Publishing, UK
Pages: 208
Width: 6"
Height: 9"
Format: Softcover