Libraries, learning, and porous boundaries: Reimagining the library landscape and its inhabitants

ABSTRACT

Learning landscapes have experienced a seismic shift in the who, how, and what of their delivery. Typically this focusses on how academic colleagues deliver their subject content, but now more than ever it is critical for students to be confident and skilled in information literacy in its broadest sense, managing, sharing, and redeveloping current knowledge for a smaller, yet local world. Libraries and librarians must respond with renewed agility and reposition themselves as educators and enablers within porous learning environments. The move to digital library collections is now matched by a need for digital library spaces, services, and librarians. This chapter will explore how librarians need to reconsider their professional identities, relocate from physical to digital library environments, and reshape knowledge creation and exchange within and through porous boundaries. © 2021 David Baker and Lucy Ellis Published by Elsevier Ltd.