Academic Libraries of the Future
28/11/11
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Libraries of the future: Avoiding complacency
A significant benefit of scenarios is found from people using them to inform their own thinking about the future. It can be an enjoyable experience for people to leave their day jobs behind for a few hours, and to consider the wider environment and where libraries fit in the changing landscape.[...]
Libraries of the future: Long term planning focus
Perhaps the most powerful use of these longer-term scenarios is in thinking about the people and facilities implications of each scenario. Librarians’ careers span perhaps 50 years and buildings often last for 100 years, so planning for these needs to take into account possible futures over the[...]
Libraries of the future: Highlighting early indicators
Following on from a strategic planning exercise, librarians and others can use the scenarios as mental models to look for and identify signs of change, to alert an institution if it needs to take action. The physiological reason for this is that the brain matches incoming signals to existing[...]
Libraries of the future: Assessing existing strategies
Most organisations with an existing strategy have built it with a set of explicit or implicit assumptions. These assumptions are usually based on events in the past. By placing the existing strategy in each scenario in turn and asking ‘how would my strategy turn out if this scenario is the one[...]
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