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crln-9266	Walter, Scott	C&RL Spotlight	2015	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1340	40	38	In “The McDonaldization of Academic Libraries and the Values of Transformational Change,” Karen Nicholson (University of Guelph) argues that the idea of “McDonaldiza- tion,” as applied to academic libraries by Brian Quinn in 2000, continues to shape the language of library research and practice. Looking back over 15 years during which concerns over “the growing influence of corporate aims and val- ues” in higher education have only increased, Nicholson concludes that the trends identified by Quinn continue to shape academic library practice and that his critique of library leader- ship “largely foreshadows the current state of academic libraries,” including their focus on accountability; return-on-investment; learning analytics; and the standards, guidelines, out- comes, and performance indicators that “[make] libraries increasingly predictable.”	cache/crln-9266.pdf	txt/crln-9266.txt