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16 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 303 — 2022 It seems to me that in building those partnerships, adapting them, and evolving them, the library as place will endure. © Kornelia Tancheva This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Tancheva, Kornelia. “Library as Place.” Research Library Issues, no. 303 (2022): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.303.2. Endnotes 1 David Banush, “When Will the Library Be Open?,” Inside Higher Ed, November 15, 2021, https://www.insidehighered.com/ views/2021/11/15/climate-change-operational-disruptions-and- research-library-opinion.

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16 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 303 — 2022 It seems to me that in building those partnerships, adapting them, and evolving them, the library as place will endure. © Kornelia Tancheva This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. To cite this article: Tancheva, Kornelia. “Library as Place.” Research Library Issues, no. 303 (2022): 12–16. https://doi.org/10.29242/rli.303.2. Endnotes 1 David Banush, “When Will the Library Be Open?,” Inside Higher Ed, November 15, 2021, https://www.insidehighered.com/ views/2021/11/15/climate-change-operational-disruptions-and- research-library-opinion.

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17 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 303 — 2022 Impressions from a Former ARL LCDP Fellow of the Pandemons Class Martha Alvarado Anderson, University of Arkansas Libraries The Plan As I start to write this article, I recall a quote from Napoleon Hill, American author, stating, “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” When I applied to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Leadership and Career Development Program (LCDP) at the end of 2019, I was dreaming of an opportunity to improve myself professionally and to discover new approaches to contribute to the growth of my own institution by learning what it takes to be an ARL organization. I was to be the only fellow participating in the 2020–21 cohort as a non-ARL organization member. I was ready for the challenge and the opportunity to visit in person institutions like the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Also, there was going to be a lot to learn from The Pandemons class and its home institutions. Eager to learn, I attended the ARL LCDP orientation session March 4–6, 2020, in Washington, D.C. This is the last normal trip and conference I can remember. I am fond of having the privilege to interact with all involved in the program and being able to share experiences, spaces, and meals without fear. I recall leaving the orientation session so excited to start the training and enthusiastic to reunite with my cohort in the summer of 2020 at the University of British Columbia. The ARL LCDP The program pre-pandemic was described as a yearlong fellowship that aims to prepare mid-career librarians from historically

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15 Association of Research Libraries Research Library Issues 303 — 2022 & Special Collections, which has already allowed classes to create their own special collections digital exhibits. Looking at the visitor numbers for the fall 2021 semester, and specifically at the use of these new spaces that allow for active interactions and creation, underpinned by new technologies, I concluded that library space that affords active engagement and is based on user needs and behaviors, as well as on institutional priorities (or “institutional desires,” as Shrey called them), will endure post-pandemic. To counteract this point, however, I cautioned that not all library spaces are the same, in other words, not all will endure and one-size solutions do not fit all contexts. Barely a month and a half has passed since the panel as I write this, and the news is full of pieces on a new COVID “variant of concern” and countries are beginning to close borders again. The idea of a post-pandemic world seems ever more elusive. Even if there is a post- pandemic future for libraries, I can’t help but be reminded of a recent piece in Inside Higher Education by my colleague David Banush, the dean of libraries and academic information resources at Tulane University, in which he discussed what climate change and natural disasters mean for libraries in affected areas, and posited that libraries need to focus on collective services, rather than just on collective collections.1 The common theme that emerges for me from the panel, and as I try to think about the future of the library as place, whether in a post- pandemic or a permanent-pandemic world, is that of partnerships. Partnerships between libraries (to offer collective services) partnerships with instructional and research faculty around the creation of new knowledge partnerships with the community (to provide equitable access, to address the issues of concern to the community, such as environmental degradation) partnerships with student and other campus organizations (to enhance accessibility, meet students’ current and anticipated needs, and support institutional strategies) and ultimately a partnership with the (natural, built, or human) context of the library.

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