Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future: A Short Impression

International Summer School on the Digital Library 2003, Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future

Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future: A Short Impression

Jola G.B. Prinsen

In the brand new "Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future" course, aimed at senior management in libraries, IT department and publishing houses, eight prominent speakers gave their vision on the library of the future.

On the first day, Dan Atkins talked about the cyberinfrastructure and about new knowledge environments like collaboratories, grid communities and e-science. According to him, the future role of (research) libraries lies in institutional repositories, scientific data repositories, and authentication/accounting.
Arie Jongejan talked about the publishing cycle from the publisher's perspective and gave a view ahead. He saw a role for libraries in acquiring full-text resources and 'federating' the hundreds of databases available.
The difference between modernisation of the traditional publishing cycle (scholarly publishing) and true innovation of this cycle (scholarly communication) was discussed by Clifford Lynch. According to him, future libraries should be involved in personalisation, computing over collections of scientific publications, indexing/retrieval of multimedia, multilingual searching, and archiving and preservation.
Mel Collier concluded the day with a presentation about the library's role in e-learning. Their role is twofold: libraries should provide physical learning spaces, and they should be involved in content management.
The second and final day of the course focused on the future of different kinds of libraries.

The future of national libraries was discussed by Lynne Brindley. In her opinion, the challenges for national libraries lie in digital acquisition, digital access, digital preservation and archiving, digital infrastructure, and digitisation.
The future of university libraries and the necessary organisation and management change in these kinds of libraries were the subject of Jan Wilkinson's speech.
Eugenie Prime focused not on what the future of corporate libraries looked like, but rather on how to think about that future and how to understand the environment you are part of.
Rick Luce concluded with a presentation on the future of research libraries. He talked about the changing nature of science, user needs & digital library challenges, then discussed his own library as a case study, and concluded with organisational strategies to meet the challenges ahead.

This article is written by Jola G.B. Prinsen, Deputy Manager Ticer B.V. and course manager of the Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future course. Copyright Ticer B.V.

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	Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future: A Short Impression
	Jola G.B. Prinsen
	In the brand new "Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future" course, aimed at senior management in libraries, IT department and publishing houses, eight prominent speakers gave their vision on the library of the future. On the first day, Dan Atkins talked about the cyberinfrastructure and about new knowledge environments like collaboratories, grid communities and e-science. According to him, the future role of (research) libraries lies in institutional repositories, scientific data repositories, and authentication/accounting. Arie Jongejan talked about the publishing cycle from the publisher's perspective and gave a view ahead. He saw a role for libraries in acquiring full-text resources and 'federating' the hundreds of databases available. The difference between modernisation of the traditional publishing cycle (scholarly publishing) and true innovation of this cycle (scholarly communication) was discussed by Clifford Lynch. According to him, future libraries should be involved in personalisation, computing over collections of scientific publications, indexing/retrieval of multimedia, multilingual searching, and archiving and preservation. Mel Collier concluded the day with a presentation about the library's role in e-learning. Their role is twofold: libraries should provide physical learning spaces, and they should be involved in content management. The second and final day of the course focused on the future of different kinds of libraries. The future of national libraries was discussed by Lynne Brindley. In her opinion, the challenges for national libraries lie in digital acquisition, digital access, digital preservation and archiving, digital infrastructure, and digitisation. The future of university libraries and the necessary organisation and management change in these kinds of libraries were the subject of Jan Wilkinson's speech. Eugenie Prime focused not on what the future of corporate libraries looked like, but rather on how to think about that future and how to understand the environment you are part of. Rick Luce concluded with a presentation on the future of research libraries. He talked about the changing nature of science, user needs & digital library challenges, then discussed his own library as a case study, and concluded with organisational strategies to meet the challenges ahead.
	This article is written by Jola G.B. Prinsen, Deputy Manager Ticer B.V. and course manager of the Leaders' Visions on the Library of the Future course. Copyright Ticer B.V.