Themes of Change in Corporate Libraries: Considerations for Academic Libraries

The move to an increasingly digital research environment has substantially disintermediated both academic and corporate libraries from the research process. The full impact of this disruptive change has been more clearly expressed in the corporate environment, in which libraries are less insulated by institutional tradition and historical prestige. Consideration of the changes felt and the strategies adopted by corporate libraries to maintain institutional relevance in a disintermediated research environment offers insight for academic libraries into how to weather changes to come and maintain the reactive roles in the intellectual life of the campus.