Carterette Webinar: Calling it Quits: How to Evaluate Library Services and Decide What to Stop Doing

The Georgia Library Association Carterette Series Webinars presents

Calling it Quits: How to Evaluate Library Services and Decide What to Stop Doing

Wednesday, July 9, 2025
2pm Eastern (11am Pacific | 12pm Mountain | 1pm Central)
Cost: Free

Description: Following a period of disruption, library leaders often need to realign service offerings with current organizational priorities and resources. In this session, the speakers will introduce a new model that was designed and applied at a large research library in an effort to redefine, reevaluate, and right-size research service offerings to better align with current staffing levels and support work-life balance. The  model includes: (1) a rubric designed to aid in the evaluation of service offerings against available resources and campus needs; (2) a reusable checklist to support the sunsetting of services; and (3) a service template to clarify ongoing services for internal and external audiences. In this session, participants will use the model to engage in hands-on learning as they assess the sustainability and resource levels of the service offerings at their own institution. They will be positioned to identify potential service changes to align internal and external communication strategies for supported change. The session will also be infused with change management practices that center people and support them as individuals through the transformation process.

About the Presenters:

Erinn Aspinall is the Director of the Health Sciences Libraries at the University of Minnesota. Her career includes work at public health, medical, and health sciences libraries, including 17 years at the University of Minnesota, previous experience at the University of New Mexico and the University of Michigan, and post-graduate work at the NIH National Library of Medicine. She believes that libraries are at their best when they mirror the needs of their communities and has brought that vision to her work. Her additional interests include organizational development and continuous process improvement.

Danya Leebaw is the Social Sciences Director at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She spent ten years as a social sciences librarian at Carleton College, and prior to that was a business librarian at Emory University. Danya earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to becoming a librarian, Danya worked for nearly a decade in advertising. Her research is focused on academic library management, librarians, and academic freedom, often through a critical theoretical lens.

Emma Molls is the Director of the Open Research & Publishing Department at the University of Minnesota Libraries, which includes computational research, publishing services, research data services, research information management, and houses the Data Curation Network. Prior to this role, Emma was a publishing librarian at the University of Minnesota and a Scholarly Communication and Social Science Librarian at Iowa State University. Emma is a current member of the SPARC Steering Committee and writes about the sustainability and scalability of scholarly communication programs.

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To register for the online event
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1. Go to the registration page: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I95EiPiFRtKV9A9Yz9cETw

2. Complete and submit the form.
3. A URL for the event will be emailed to you immediately after registration.

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The session will be recorded and available on the Carterette Series Webinars site approximately 1 week after the live program.

Contact a member of the Carterette Series planning team with questions or suggestions:
carteretteserieswebinars@georgialibraryassociation.org