id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-24342 Litsey, Ryan Gregory C. Thompson, Harish Maringanti, Rick Anderson, Catherine B. Soehner, and Alberta Comer. Strategic Planning for Academic Libraries: A Step-By-Step Guide. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions, 2019. 144p. Paper, $39.99 (ISBN: 978-0-8389-1893-7). 2020-03-05 2 .pdf application/pdf 1139 49 48 The University of Washington’s digital scholarship librarian, Verletta Kern, synthesizes many of the challenges of digital scholarship as a set of “wicked problems” (78) that the insti- tution continues to interrogate: the values, practices, and contexts of the modern scholarship are framed by questions of the library’s purpose, its priorities, its decisions about strategic infrastructure investment, ongoing funding challenges, and a desire to shift institutional poli- cies in support of the recognition of digital scholarship outputs. However, the structure can at times also get in the way of the larger discussions about the underlying theories of strategic planning. cache/crl-24342.pdf txt/crl-24342.txt