Transforming the Academic Library Organization for Service in a Budget Constrained, Digital World

This article describes in some detail an academic library organization in a continual process of adaptation to a changing external environment. Confronting and dealing with two significant environmental realities – constrained funding and the digital information revolution – the library has realized that to remain true to its core mission of identifying, preserving and making available the key documents of the human enterprise it must change its structure and procedures. Paradoxically, it must change to remain the same.