(7 Feb 2024) Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of rapidly evolving living and working patterns.
Part 1 is ‘Come Rain or Shine: Preparing public libraries for the future in an age of uncertainty’ that envisions the challenges and demands that public libraries will face from now until 2040. It provides strategic analysis of potential future scenarios and how those could impact libraries.
Part 2 is the Future Libraries toolkit that provides a practical guide and framework to help libraries strategically analyse possible future uses of their spaces. The toolkit is designed in line with the outcomes of the report and comprises a practical activity set that you can undertake in your own library for its own unique context.
The Toolkit is made up of an instruction document, templates to complete for your own staff and library, and a presentation that gives all the detail needed to undertake your own horizon scanning activities.
Download the toolkit and report (free)
Using the report and toolkit, libraries will be equipped to assess their specific community contexts and prepare effective strategies for resilient service provision in the future, whatever the weather.
The original announcement in full can be found here.
