Leadership is answering a need immediately or anticipating a need. The leader becomes the enabler. The leader's role is providing the organizational structure for your unit to be positioned for this to happen, to be able to take advantage of 'insurmountable opportunities' such as this. In libraries, for instance, librarians used to provide a pile of books to the patron and leave the patron to get to the exact information needed. Now, librarians are delivering the end result, the bit of information needed, often electronically, often because of the classifications and indexing.
Information is power.
In times of diminishing resources people reach for the power even more aggressively than usual. Our institutions are shifting the focus - from a focus on the institution to a focus on the output product. Media and Learning Resources directors and staff need to be a part of the solution. Volunteer to participate in the discussion and planning. Attend every open meeting on campus and guest speakers that are brought in who will give you a better and better picture of how the world is changing.