Future evolutions of information service organizations: Around the bend in the river
Abstract:
Converged organizations are uniquely and differently prepared to respond to evolution and change in the information service profession. This chapter forecasts and proposes ways in which converged organizations can and will respond to predicted developments in how libraries and technology organizations will provide service in the next five to ten years.
Key words
future
libraries
technology
collections
digital
data
research
cyberinfrastructure
cloud computing
multimedia
metadata
convergence
user interfaces
mission
The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson
There are two things that many individuals ...
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