Tracking Unicorns: A Multi-Institutional Network Analysis of Library Functional Areas

Abstract

Libraries and Library Positions in a Period of Change Libraries have experienced a sustained period of change. Factors including globalization and technology have caused a reconsideration of the research library in terms of physical environment, services, and pervasive technology.1 Per Barbara Dewey, the global research library must “address sweeping changes in technology transforming all aspects of creating, disseminating, and accessing scholarship in a multi-cultural world.”2 John Seely Brown advises that we are now in “an era of equilibrium to a new normal that is an era of constant dis-equilibrium.”3 Regarding technology, Lori A. Goetsch states: