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Monday, 8th March 2010

From ARL: Envisioning Research Library Futures: A Scenario Thinking Project

From the ARL Document

As research library leaders confront turbulent times, they sorely need new tools to facilitate thinking about the future of the institution and to foster dialogue within the community. ARL’s new project seeks to envision library futures and will engage the Association's member community in looking decades out at the situations that will confront research libraries. At the heart of this work will be the creation of a set of future scenarios and a toolkit to facilitate research library leaders in their planning and decision making.

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ARL’s scenarios will consist of high-level descriptions of a small number of potential future states. These scenarios will capture broad environmental drivers affecting research libraries.

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The collective wisdom of the research library community will be one of the main sources of information the project will leverage in generating the scenarios. In addition, the perspectives of outside experts and key stakeholders will be engaged systematically.

Two Other Library-Focused Scenario Projects are Mentioned and Linked:

+ UK: Towards the Academic Library of the Future

+ Australia: Bookends Scenarios Project (Public Libraries)

Access the Complete ARL Document

Source: Association of Research Libraries


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