The Strategic Positioning of Academic Libraries explores the influence of trends in higher education and the wider world on the position of academic libraries. It complements an analysis of library strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with ten positioning strategies to provide an essential foundation for effective strategy formulation.

John Cox writes about and analyses issues impacting academic libraries and their strategic positioning. Before he retired, he was University Librarian at the University of Galway in Ireland and held other library leadership roles at University College Cork and the Wellcome Trust.