I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries and higher education. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here.
Of course I've very likely missed a few, so suggestions are welcome in the comments.
I've done a few similar posts recently here and here.
- NMC Horizon Report 2014 Library Edition
- SPARC Article-Level Metrics Primer
- Reed Elsevier: Goodbye to Berlin - The Fading Threat of Open Access
- Ithaka S+R: Does Discovery Still Happen in the Library? Roles and Strategies for a Shifting Reality
- Ithaka S+R: Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond the Start-up Phase
- Ithaka S+R: Interactive Online Learning on Campus: Testing MOOCs and Other Platforms in Hybrid Formats in the University System of Maryland
- Ithaka S+R: Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Art Historians
- Ithaka S+R: A Guide to the Best Revenue Models and Funding Sources for your Digital Resources
- How to work successfully with Wikipedia: A guide for galleries, libraries, archives and museums
- Pew Research: Younger Americans and Public Libraries
- Pew Research: Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
- Pew Research: AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs
- Pew Research: Net Threats
- Pew Research: The Internet of Things Will Thrive by 2025
- Pew Research: U.S. Views of Technology and the Future
- Using social media to promote your digital collections
- Jisc Advice and Projects
- Developing digital literacies
- Reinventing MIT Education together
- Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education
- IEEE Special Report: Big Data
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I'm always interested in the present and future of libraries. There's a steady stream of reports from various organizations that are broadly relevant to the (mostly academic) library biz but they can be tough to keep track of. I thought I'd aggregate some of those here.
Librarians as faculty? It's a red herring.
Why I think faculty status for librarians is (generally) a bad idea
I'm Not Your Sweetheart (& interesting counterpoint)
Some interesting ferment happening in repository-land, notably this discussion of various types and scales of repositories and how successful they can expect to be given the structural conditions in which they are embedded.