Continuing Change, Constant Engagement: Caribbean Academic Libraries at the Forefront of Transformation

Continuing Change, Constant Engagement considers the current environment, impact, and future directions of academic libraries in the Caribbean. This work presents a fresh approach to global academic library literature, featuring a uniquely Caribbean voice, and a futures mindset, while bridging critical gaps and charting new pathways forward. It features forward-thinking case studies, research findings, and historical perspectives from information professionals across the French, Spanish, and English-speaking Caribbean region.

Chapters illuminate transformative stories of libraries reimagining their responses to cultural shifts, redefining their purpose, and pioneering practices for engaging communities. Authors highlight triumphs and challenges in surpassing user expectations while navigating declining budgets, resource constraints, leadership issues, technological advancement, climate change, and post-pandemic realities.

Caribbean academic libraries are positioning themselves as future catalysts - supporting teaching, learning, and research while becoming engines of knowledge creation, institutional transformation, and regional development.

Paulette A. Kerr is a Campus Librarian at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Mona. Her areas of expertise and research include Special Collections, Information Literacy, Reference Services, Outreach and Library Management.

Nicola A. Palmer is a Public Services librarian at Oakwood University in Huntsville Alabama. She holds a BA (Literatures in English) and a MLIS from The University of the West Indies, Mona. Her interests are in liaison librarianship, the role of media and information literacy in student success and quality standards within academic libraries.

Jessica Lewis Marshall is a Senior Librarian at The UWI Mona Library. Her areas of expertise and research include Special Collections, Information Literacy, Reference Services, Outreach and Library Management.

David A. Drysdale is a University Librarian at the University of Technology, Jamaica. His experience in Library and Information spans over 40 years, having served in the Jamaica Library Service.