Curriculum Shifts and Library Strategy: Insights from Emerging Higher Ed Trends

Sponsored by Clarivate
Recorded on 10/30/2025

Posted in Library Leadership and Management

Discover how academic libraries can stay abreast of changing service needs and curricula to support new degree programs and institutional priorities.

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Summary:

As higher education institutions expand academic offerings to reflect evolving career paths and research frontiers, libraries must stay ahead of curriculum trends to remain essential partners in learning and discovery.

This session, grounded in insights from Hanover Research’s ongoing research and experience with higher education institutions, explores how libraries can advance collections, embrace digital transformation, and align services with evolving institutional priorities. Learn how expert curation and data-driven strategies can position your library to support emerging degrees and shape the future of academia.

Speakers:

  • Image of Emily Kelleher, M.A.

    Emily Kelleher, M.A.

    Senior Research AdvisorHanover Research

    Emily Kelleher serves as a senior research advisor in the higher education department at Hanover Research. Emily and her team at Hanover Research give organizations a competitive advantage through custom market research, data-driven insights, and strategic guidance. Emily’s background is in economics and education policy, having conducted research on the effect of charter schools, school vouchers, and low-income students’ access to higher education. As a Senior Research Advisor at Hanover, she leverages her previous research expertise and data analytics skills to partner with national universities across the higher education landscape to better understand their goals and priorities, and design research methodologies accordingly.

  • Image of Tash Edmonds

    Tash Edmonds

    Director, Industry & Publisher StrategyClarivate

    Tash Edmonds is the Director, Industry & Publisher Strategy for the Books division at ProQuest, part of Clarivate.  A qualified librarian, Tash brings nearly two decades of experience and keenly understands libraries’ pain points, the role of publishers and the dynamic landscape within the global books marketplace. Tash has also worked and managed library teams in the public, school, further and higher education sectors where she gained first-hand insight into the varying acquisition and collection development trends and issues facing information professionals and their end users.

  • Image of Leigh Wright, MLIS

    Leigh Wright, MLIS

    Product ManagerClarivate

    Leigh Wright is the Product Manager for ebook content and subscriptions in the Books division at ProQuest, part of Clarivate. She is a librarian, holding an MLIS from Rutgers University, and has worked in and around the academic publishing and library industries for 20 years.

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