Sunday, July 04, 2010
Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians
The Association of College and Research Libraries has published a downloadable report with a set of 26 scenarios about the future of academic libraries, “Futures Thinking for Academic Librarians: Higher Education in 2025”. An audio podcast discussing the report is also available via this link.
Picture: Old card catalog drawers, Doheny Library, USC (by Amy Gahran, used under Creative Commons licensing via Flickr)
Posted by Zhan Li on 07/04 at 07:28 PMBlogging • (54) Comments •
Organizations
Acceleration Studies Foundation, USA
The Centre for Scenario Planning and Future Studies, University of Strathclyde, UK
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, Denmark
Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawaii, USA
Institute for Alternative Futures, USA
Oxford Scenarios Program, Oxford University, UK
RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, USA
Scenario Planning Institute, Colorado State University, USA
World Futures Studies Federation
Blogs
