(30 Oct 2025) The post by Masud Khokhar, chief digital and information officer at the University of Leeds, highlights the challenges and transformations libraries face in adapting from traditional structured knowledge systems to the data-driven, algorithmic economy shaped by unstructured data and AI technologies like Generative AI. Libraries have been slow to adopt data science…
(1 Dec 2022) This absence of a reading culture among Filipinos was challenged even more by the Covid pandemic. How have our libraries coped in the last three years? How have our librarians adjusted to widespread digitalization? What is the future of our libraries after the pandemic? These questions were all discussed at the roundtable…
(Jan 2022) From the foreword of the report: “This report provides a window into how library leaders around the world have navigated our present crisis and asks some essential questions about how to begin to reimagine work, collections, and engagement with their respective communities. Some of the choices that library leaders must make were apparent…
(26 Oct 2021) National Library Board, Singapore and the IFLA Regional Office for Asia and Oceania, in support of the IFLA Global Vision are jointly holding an online event: Leaders’ Conversations 2021 – Visualising Our Future: Masterplans of Libraries and Archives. Below is the announcement: What is the FUTURE of libraries and archives? Find out more…
(21 Aug 2020) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE published today a report on two invitational workshops with experts in learning and research applications of emerging technologies. The workshops, held this spring, focused on identifying likely futures for partnerships with libraries. Future Themes and Forecasts for Research Libraries…
(1 Jun 2020) Research Information is delighted to present its latest webcast, entitled COVID-19 and the Future of the Academic Library. Free to view and open to all our readers, the webcast will focus on how academic libraries have had to change in recent months, on the changes in relationship with other players in the scholarly…
(20 May 2020) Nick began by explaining that the key ethos of CILIP, the UK’s library and information association, is the belief in the power of libraries, knowledge and information to change lives for the better. A lot of Nick’s thinking centred around that of Rolf Hapel, distinguished professor of practice in residence at the University of…
(26 Mar 2019) IFLA ARL Section has organized a series of webinars on topics relevant to Academic & Research Libraries. The first of the webinar series will kick off on 12 April with a presentation by Gulcin Cribb, University Librarian of Singapore Management University, entitled ‘The Future is a Moving Goal Post: Academic Libraries and Change’.…
(18 December 2018) Sponsored by OpenAthens, the research gathered information from more than 900 librarians working in different sectors across the globe in Spring 2018 and was designed to gain insight into current thinking on identity and access management. According to the new research growing numbers of students and researchers are working from home, on mobile…
(2 September 2018) Libraries are being transformed or closed through government and private cost-cutting measures, driven by a contempt for learning and an emphasis on profit, writes Dr Evan Jones. Independent Australia has the full story.