This file collects thoughts about the research library of the future as well as about the future of the research library, and anything in between.
- library as a space for providing access to recorded knowledge
- resilience at the library of Alexandria?
- difference to archives (focus more on documentation)
- access for both humans and machines
- besides free text, data and software become important
- artistic license vs standards
- knowledge about anything humans care about, within ethical limits (which may vary around the globe)
- version history
- inspired by the blind men and the elephant
- user-driven
- service-oriented
- shared resources
- accessibility
- blind and non-blind don't use different books any more, just different tools to read
- 24/7, from anywhere, using any of many devices
- historical role in the democratization of knowledge
- machine-friendly
- machines are an integral part of knowledge creation, curation and consumption
- APIs, bots, mining tools, annotation gadgets, accessibility tools
- machine-assisted translation
- queriable
- "human API" (Mechanical Turk?)
- confluence of GLAMs
- not just books but any kind of media
- anchor for citizen science (think drones for fieldwork)
- building for physical objects and collections thereof, otherwise digital
- online vs. offline
- indoors vs. outdoors
- knowledge center
- learning and teaching center
- cultivating awareness of ways to handle knowledge
- discovery center
- space for cognitive adventures
- learning and teaching center
- standard-conscious
- standard-compliant
- standard-enforcing
- silence
- place for focused work or study
- collaboration
- participatory
- exchange of ideas
- networking
- practice of knowledge-related skills
- maker spaces
- free vs. open
- spontaneity vs. schedule
- Licklider's "thinking center"
- Licklider, J. C. R., "Man-Computer Symbiosis", IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, vol. HFE-1, 4-11, March 1960.
- Learning center, learning spaces
- Toward a New Alexandria
- Learning by doing: Maker spaces
- "There is but one journal: The scientific literature." — Richard Gordon
- amalgamation of G L A M in the digital realm
- "peer recognition rather than peer review"
- Knight News Challenge: Libraries
- Rethinking Libraries in the Digital Age
- The Cobweb — Can the Internet be archived?
- What fiction has to say about the libraries of the future
- NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition
- automated mining of text and data being browsed/ read on a given computer/ network
- knowledge gap visualizations
- Jisc brochure on Libraries of the Future
- 21st Century Academic Libraries
- Future-Proofing the Research Library
- The Role of the Library, Part 2: Envisioning the Research Library of Tomorrow
- Future of the Research Library: Heather Joseph on Open Access
- Library usage records as a way to track usage
- Computers are good fossil hunters
- Computers read the fossil record
- Ingenuity Unleashed: The spur of the Knight Challenge | Editorial
- The "Paper" of the Future — presenting authorea
- Mapping Libraries: Creating Real-time Maps of Global Information
- Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
- Resolution on the Retention of Library Usage Records
- unclear quote: "a library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas"
- Toward a New Alexandria
- Librarybase
- What can X do to support open science?
- Knowledge Exchange Discussion paper on Open Knowledge
- European open Science Policy Platform
- Pathways to Open Scholarship
- The research librarian of the future: data scientist and co-investigator
- "Imagine a librarian who understands, in pragmatic terms, the benefits of Open Science to the discovery process."
- "Historian Yuval Noah Harari makes a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class"
- The Future of Employment
- NLM and the Internet (1994)
- Charting the Course for the 21st Century: NLM's Long Range Plan 2006-2016
- NLM strategic vision 2015
- Network of Medical Libraries
Request for Information (RFI): Strategic Plan for the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Strategic Plan for the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health
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- Publisher
- Data Resource or Tool Developer
- Student
- General Public
- Other
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- Academic Institution
- Library
- Association
- Non-profit Organization
- Government
- Medical Office or Clinic
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- Publisher
- Commercial Organization
- Non-academic Research Institution
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Please provide input on topics within any or all of the four themes below.
Identify what you consider an audacious goal in this area – a challenge that may be daunting but would represent a huge leap forward were it to be achieved. Include any proposals for the steps and elements needed to reach that goal.
Other comments, suggestions, or considerations, keeping in mind that the aim is to build the NLM of the future.
Identify what you consider an audacious goal in this area – a challenge that may be daunting but would represent a huge leap forward were it to be achieved. Include input on the barriers to and benefits of achieving the goal.
Other comments, suggestions, or considerations, keeping in mind that the aim is to build the NLM of the future.
3) Role of NLM in supporting the health of nation: clinical systems, public health systems and services, personal health
Identify what you consider an audacious goal in this area – a challenge that may be daunting but would represent a huge leap forward were it to be achieved. Include input on the barriers to and benefits of achieving the goal.
Other comments, suggestions, or considerations, keeping in mind that the aim is to build the NLM of the future.
Identify what you consider an audacious goal in this area – a challenge that may be daunting but would represent a huge leap forward were it to be achieved. Include input on the barriers to and benefits of achieving the goal.