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Four Retreats and a Forum: A Meditation on Retreats as a Response to Change

The author describes four successive library retreats held by the Bowling Green State University library staff from 1995 to 1998. The retreats reflect the changes that have occurred in library work and in management theory since the early 1990s. The importance of technology to library work is recognized, but there is also a growing realization that developing a flexible staff-capable of learning new skills and willing to absorb the values of the organization-is really the key to maintaining a fully functioning and well-respected academic library.