As the Harvard Law School Library (HLSL) settles into its new organizational structure, Harvard University announces a university wide reorganization of the library system. This news reverberates within HLSL and creates widespread uncertainty and anxiety. What impact will the university-wide planning initiative have on the recently-reorganized HLSL? Will much of the organizational change work completed by HLSL Director John Palfrey and his colleagues now be for naught? How might the gains and benefits of the HLSL change process be preserved and, potentially, used to inform the university-wide reorganization process?
Subjects: Reorganization, Strategic Planning
Setting: Private
Also available: Reorganization at the Harvard Law School Library (A)
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