Trends and signals for the library of the future
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Miguel Figueroa - Director of the American Library Association Center for the Future of Libraries- CILIPS Conference 2017
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Trends and signals for the library of the future
- 1. The Future Together: Trends and Signals for the Library of the Future Miguel Figueroa American Library Association Center for the Future of Libraries
- 2. We have to become collaborators for the future.
- 3. Respect and integrate knowledge and practice across multiple disciplines into greater under- standing and performance.
- 4. Generate new thinking that leaps over present problems and limitations.
- 5. Unify individual perspectives and strengths into collective intelligence.
- 6. Foresight is fundamentally about the study of change. We can learn a great deal about the future by looking at what is happening now.
- 8. There are many futures, not just one. The objective is not to know the future, but to be ready for whatever might happen.
- 15. Clarity for what the problem to be studied really is. Not studying for the sake of studying – studying for action.
- 16. curiosity / creativity / innovation come up with new ideas implement new ideas into useful solutions explore, investigate and learn
- 17. Inbound Change change that happens to people Outbound Change change that we produce ourselves.
- 19. Thank You!! Visit our website www.ala.org/libraryofthefuture Join our newsletter http://tinyletter.com/libraryofthefuture Share your thoughts mfigueroa@ala.org
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Editor's Notes
- So here’s some good news to share at a forum focused on library research. We’re on the right path. Futuring and foresight, at it’s core is all about the study of change. Like many other disciplines, futuring and foresight begins with careful observation and consideration – though in the case of futuring it is observation of the trends and changes that happen in the world around us. When we activate our minds to observe the trends and changes, we take a first steps to considering what the futures we encounter might develop out of.
- To help illustrate this idea, futurists utilize a tool called a cone of plausibility or futures cone. This model was developed by Peter Bishop and his colleagues at the University of Houston. We can imagine this cone expanding through time. From the present there extends a baseline of change – this center line is the extension of our present context further out into the future. But as we can see from the cone, as the cone extends out into the future the range of possible futures expands, opening to an ever widening range of alternative futures. We can invest our efforts in fully understanding the baseline of change to have a greater sense of the path our world is on. At the same time, we continue to observe new changes and trends to better understand a greater diversity of plausible futures. We can also work to hone in on preferable futures – rooted in trends and changes – and establish visions, goals, and actions to help us achieve those preferable futures.
- So there are many futures, not just one. Until they become the present, there exist a diverse set of plausible futures. A set of possibilities, plausible alternative futures with believable stories behind them. We explore and prepare our study of these futures not to know the exact futures, but so that we are not surprised by any one of them. While it would be impossible for us to be too right (too many variables, really), we adopt a goal of not being too wrong.
- The future is a combination of what the world does and what people do about it. It is never just one or the other.