The Future of Libraries
There are many challenges ahead of us as we look to the future not only of libraries but also our roles as library professionals. The following documents, articles and resources focus on these two very real challenges.
Future Ready Librarians
As schools seek to become Future Ready, it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership beyond district and building leaders. School librarians lead, teach and support the Future Ready goals of their school and district in a variety of ways through their professional practice, programs and spaces. If properly prepared and supported, school librarians are well-positioned to be at the leading edge of the digital transformation of learning. |
Leading Learning Framework for School Libraries
Leading Learning provides a guide for the transition of school libraries to vibrant centres of teaching and learning responsive to the diverse needs of learners today and into the future. It also serves as a measurement tool to help schools determine where they are now with library facilities and programs and where they want to advance to. |
Centre for the Future of Libraries
The Center for the Future of Libraries works to:
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Future of the Library and Information Profession
This section of the ALIA website is designed to host a range of information about the ALIA Future of the Profession initiatives and projects from 2013, including the result of forums and submissions, and reports and information about the projects and activities that have evolved since then |
Future Learning and School Libraries: ASLA Futures Paper
This paper is an information base to support decision making for future focused learning in Australian school libraries. It seeks to enhance understanding about the implications of international trends for Australian schooling, the need for rigorous evaluation and the contribution that school libraries and teacher librarians can make to student learning. |
Future Libraries
This report brings to light significant trends that will influence the future of public, academic and corporate libraries and outlines the implications on their design, operation and user experience. This piece of research presents a glimpse into the future. It explores what we may expect to see as the physical and the digital arena continues to evolve and aims to serve as a foundation for further discussion around the future role of libraries in the communities they serve. |
Library of the Future
This report is the result of a Library of the Future project that spanned the year 2015 an focusses on the next 20 years of the University of Adelaide Libraries. The report focusses around four main domains:
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Articles about the future of libraries
Libraries of the Future: 8 technologies we would love to see
Libraries lead the way to digital citizenship. They should be the first places where most advanced technologies are implemented.Today, libraries are not only about lending books. They are creative spaces, not only for individuals, but also teams. They are economic incubators and learning hubs.
Most of all, the libraries are the entry points to the digital world. They are the way to embrace technology and avoid digital exclusion.Therefore, to improve technological literacy of local communities, libraries should be equipped with relevant technologies.
Libraries of the future are going to change n some unexpected ways
According to David Pescovitz, co-editor at Boing Boing and research director at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based collective that makes forecasts about our world, it’s likely in the coming decades that society’s traditional understanding of a library will get completely upended.
The Future of Libraries
A recent contest sponsored by the Knight Foundation awarded shares of a $1.6 million prize to 14 winners who came up with the best, most innovative ideas for helping libraries better serve their changing communities. Here is a list of some of the most innovative ideas from the contest, along with several other examples of ways libraries are changing with the times.
Institute wide task force on the future of libraries (MIT) Preliminary Report
In October 2015, MIT Provost Martin A. Schmidt asked Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, to convene and lead an Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries. The Task Force was charged with seeking broad input from the MIT community and from domain experts on how the MIT Libraries ought to evolve to best advance the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge, and to serve as a leader in the reinvention of research libraries. These are the resulting recommendations.
What will become of the library: How it will evolve as the world goes digital
An excellent article that places the concerns and fears for the future of libraries into perspective not with resignation but a pragmatic approach to the challenges ahead. The article ends with: In the end, it’s up to us—scholars, makers, and artists, seekers of community, access, and safe haven, and above all, readers in the old, human sense of the word—to rise to the level of these monuments we’ve built.
Libraries lead the way to digital citizenship. They should be the first places where most advanced technologies are implemented.Today, libraries are not only about lending books. They are creative spaces, not only for individuals, but also teams. They are economic incubators and learning hubs.
Most of all, the libraries are the entry points to the digital world. They are the way to embrace technology and avoid digital exclusion.Therefore, to improve technological literacy of local communities, libraries should be equipped with relevant technologies.
Libraries of the future are going to change n some unexpected ways
According to David Pescovitz, co-editor at Boing Boing and research director at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based collective that makes forecasts about our world, it’s likely in the coming decades that society’s traditional understanding of a library will get completely upended.
The Future of Libraries
A recent contest sponsored by the Knight Foundation awarded shares of a $1.6 million prize to 14 winners who came up with the best, most innovative ideas for helping libraries better serve their changing communities. Here is a list of some of the most innovative ideas from the contest, along with several other examples of ways libraries are changing with the times.
Institute wide task force on the future of libraries (MIT) Preliminary Report
In October 2015, MIT Provost Martin A. Schmidt asked Chris Bourg, Director of Libraries, to convene and lead an Ad Hoc Task Force on the Future of Libraries. The Task Force was charged with seeking broad input from the MIT community and from domain experts on how the MIT Libraries ought to evolve to best advance the creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge, and to serve as a leader in the reinvention of research libraries. These are the resulting recommendations.
What will become of the library: How it will evolve as the world goes digital
An excellent article that places the concerns and fears for the future of libraries into perspective not with resignation but a pragmatic approach to the challenges ahead. The article ends with: In the end, it’s up to us—scholars, makers, and artists, seekers of community, access, and safe haven, and above all, readers in the old, human sense of the word—to rise to the level of these monuments we’ve built.
Videos to provoke your thinking about the future of libraries
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