Friday, September 8, 2017

Watching the Future: Tracking Library Trends

2017



Librarians are more relevant than ever. We have no good reason to be on the defense and every reason to take the offensive. Conversation in our field is fraught with too much navel gazing and not enough looking at external evidence that many things are going well. We share too many stories about the bad stuff and too rarely share the successes. Yet we are an adaptive profession. Positive change is our tradition; let’s talk about that!....

An Industrial Revolution for libraries
I love following the folks who are involved in the Startup Library mentality: the ability to grasp and engage in an emerging culture for librarianship focused on change, innovation, experimentation and finding the future. While some worry about a continuing malaise in our field where the stories are all bad and we’re all doomed, I choose to focus on indications of positive, transformational change.


From: Lucidea Think Clearly Blog,   author Stephen Abram
http://blog.lucidea.com/watching-the-future-tracking-library-trends    9/5/2017
        
 

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