Never be bored at a meeting again! Using Liberating Structures in academic libraries for increased productivity, employee engagement, and inclusion

Abstract

How would you like to never be bored in a meeting or presentation? To be fully engaged, to know why you are there, and to have your ideas heard? There is a way for that to happen, a powerful and simple way to fully engage everyone present at a meeting, to unleash their creativity in solving problems, and to make all attendees feel their contributions are heard. The answer is “Liberating Structures,” a set of 33 activities designed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless.1 Each of these activities, which range from taking fifteen minutes to three days, are designed to replace traditional meetings.

Meetings: A Framework to Improve Effectiveness and Employee Satisfaction

“…There is a growing body of research on meetings in the LIS literature. Bieraugel (2017) recently applied the liberating structures framework to academic library meetings. Liberating structures is a framework of 33 activities to facilitate conversations designed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless.…”