After years in the field and countless conversations with colleagues, I have come to appreciate that academic museums and libraries have much in common. From organizational structures to digital and physical collection challenges, staff in both campus departments can benefit greatly from enhanced collaboration and research sharing. Academic museum professionals can learn from the rich research base in leadership studies created by academic librarians, while academic librarians can leverage the work of visual thinking strategies and museum studies curricula to enhance student and faculty engagement. In essence, this brief opinion is all about leveraging new perspectives and the power of reframing our present situation to solve problems in new ways. To borrow from my own past experience, I once found myself trying to reframe and reinterpret a situation over twenty years ago in the small cockpit of a two-seater Cessna 152 aircraft. Like many student pilots before me, I ended up losing track of my position at some point during a solo cross-country trip from Joliet to Champaign, Illinois. Climbing to a higher altitude where I could see the landscape differently and improve radio communications made all the difference. This was particularly true in an era where stopwatches, paper maps, and plotters in the cockpit were standard navigational aids before GPS was commonplace.