Let the debate begin!
What does the academic library of the future look like? Where do its walls begin and end? On campus? On our desktop? At home? Does it still have a function as a separate and distinct space? Or has it become the first step to an all-virtual future?ibraries have never been more interesting, difficult and challenging…
So says Lynne Brindley, CEO of the British Library: ‘What is a library and what should it be in 2012, 2020 and beyond are questions that require thought and debate.’
Plans are now in place for this debate which kicks off next week at the JISC conference. Sessions at the conference will explore this theme and hopefully some of the questions above. A Guardian supplement the following week will take them up too and hopefully, before long, we’ll all be giving them thought and debate…
‘I’m delighted that JISC is up for the task,’ says Lynne Brindley, about JISC’s new campaign theme. We hope others are too!
Libraries of the Future Blog
JISC has recently released preliminary results of one of the largest investigations ever undertaken into the usage of e-books by students. The results provide useful lessons for all of us and suggest that unlimited use models are the way to go. This data will help information providers and librarians alike clarify what is needed. JISC’s [...]
A date for your diary: June 30th to July 1st 2009
JISC warmly invites delegates to attend its Digital Content Conference. In the context of the completion of Phase 2 of the JISC Digitisation Programme the conference will look at the issues facing the UK’s colleges and universities as they deal with creating, delivering, sustaining and [...]
Videos of the presentations at the recent Libraries of the Future debate held in Oxford last week are now live on the JISC libraries of the future web site <http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/campaigns/librariesofthefuture/debate.aspx>. This event has generated tremendous feedback and discussion and I hope that this continues. Other activities are planned to support the debate and I would [...]
Question Time - chaired by Professor Vincent Gillespie, JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language, University of Oxford
Q: How can students currently in LIS and i-school programmes ensure that they are positioning themselves to be librarians of the future?
Peter Murray-Rust: You are the librarian of the future, and so are your colleagues, [...]
Perspective: commercial sector - Santiago de la Mora (Google)
Google’s mission is to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. It sounds grandiose, but that is the underlying theme of our products. We started with the internet because the content was already online. The big challenge is bringing offline content online - [...]