Event Report: Distilling Key Trends to Rethink Libraries
From CILIP: The Library and Information Association (UK):
Long term decision making is a hazardous venture, especially in a fast-changing world. But the decisions still have to be made.
Before asking over 100 delegates to investigate a few trends for themselves, Julian Diamond, head of information management at Arup, ran through the issues that should be considered behind a couple of the 75 key trends that Arup has identified.
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Trends chosen by 14 groups:
- Community engagement
- Artificial intelligence
- Function diversity
- Digital economy
- Access and affordability
- Knowledge economy
- Information overload
- Identity and localism
- Content diversification
- Function diversity
- Big data
- Lifelong learning
- Remote services
- User-centricity
Much More in the Complete Article
Filed under: Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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