This document is the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition which discusses key trends, challenges, and emerging technologies relevant to libraries. Some of the trends discussed include increasing focus on research data management and prioritization of mobile content. Challenges include embedding academic libraries in curriculum and capturing digital research outputs. Emerging technologies that are one year or less away include electronic publishing and mobile apps, while technologies that are four to five years away include the internet of things and semantic web/linked data. The report is a collaboration between NMC and several library partners.

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9. Focus On:
• UB Faculty, Students, and Staff
• Institutional Directions
• Libraries’ Staff Learning and Growth
• Financial Health

10. Discussion Questions

12. Dreaming and Doing!

13. Key Trends 2014
FAST TRENDS:
• Increasing Focus on Research Data
Management for Publications
• Prioritization of Mobile Content and
Delivery
MID-RANGE TRENDS:
• Evolving Nature of the Scholarly Record
• Increasing Accessibility of Research
Content
LONG-RANGE TRENDS:
• Continual Progress in Technology,
Standards, and Infrastructure
• Rise of New Forms of
Multidisciplinary Research Flickr Photo via Creative Tools

14. Increasing Focus on
Research Data
Management

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The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Physics and
Astronomy’ SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
contains 10.7 million scholarly records, and tracks
citations and usage of their resources:
go.nmc.org/saonasa

16. Prioritization of Mobile
Content and Delivery

17. Duke University Libraries is using the “BrowZine” app
for tablets to make library resources more mobile-friendly,
enabling library patrons to browse, read, and
monitor academic journals: go.nmc.org/duke

18. Evolving Nature of the
Scholarly Record

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University of California Davis launched the “Innovation
in Scholarly Communication” project to identify the
changes that are impacting traditional modes of
publication in the digital age: go.nmc.org/icis

20. Increasing Accessibility
of Research Content

21. Initiated by the Association of Research Libraries,
SPARC is an international alliance of 800+ institutions
that helps its global members establish sustainable
systems of open scholarship: go.nmc.org/sparc

22. Rise of New Forms of
Multi-Disciplinary
Research

23. Photo via Architect Magazine
As an addition to Hesburgh Libraries, the University of
Notre Dame built Multidisciplinary Research Buildings
to provide space to foster collaboration and research
among faculty and students: go.nmc.org/ndumdr

25. Dreaming and Doing!

26. Significant Challenges 2014
SOLVABLE CHALLENGES:
• Embedding Academic and Research Libraries in the
Curriculum
• Rethinking the Roles and Skills of Librarians
DIFFICULT CHALLENGES:
• Capturing and Archiving the Digital Outputs of
Research as Collection Material
• Competition from Alternative Avenues of Discovery
WICKED CHALLENGES:
• Embracing the Need for Radical Change
• Maintaining Ongoing Integration, Interoperability,
and Collaborative Projects

27. Embedding Academic
and Research Libraries
in the Curriculum

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The staff at the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State uses
a curriculum-integrated method to information literacy
by working closely with faculty to customize instruction
for specific majors: go.nmc.org/merrill

29. Rethinking the Roles
and Skills of Librarians

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The Harvard Law School library developed an academic
technology project manager position, focused on
providing support for a suite of open-source, online
classroom tools called H2O that are being used by the
law school’s faculty: go.nmc.org/hls

31. Capturing and
Archiving the Digital
Outputs of Research as
Collection Material

32. Photo via British Library
The British Library, Cambridge University Library, Trinity
College Library Dublin, and others are following new
regulations known as legal deposit to ensure that
temporary materials such as websites and e-books can
be collected and preserved: go.nmc.org/collect

33. Competition from
Alternative Avenues of
Discovery

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OCLC Research launched the “Wikipedia Library
Project” pilot in an effort to make sources for citations
more accessible to Wikipedia editors: go.nmc.org/oclc

35. Embracing the Need
for Radical Change

36. Photo via University of British Colombia
The circulation team at the Woodward Library at the
University of British Colombia drafted the “Strategic
Plan,” which promotes continuous support and creative
inspiration for staff: go.nmc.org/woodw

37. Technologies to Watch 2014
ONE YEAR OR LESS:
• Electronic Publishing
• Mobile Apps
TWO TO THREE
YEARS:
• Bibliometrics and Citation
Technologies
• Open Content
FOUR TO FIVE YEARS:
• The Internet of Things
• Semantic Web and Linked Data

38. Electronic Publishing

39. Photo via BigStock
Vectors is a USC scholarly journal that focuses on how
technology transforms, and/or impedes social relations.
It uses a peer-reviewed format and publishes only
multimedia works: go.nmc.org/vect

40. Mobile Apps

41. The Bavarian State Library in Germany offers multiple
mobile apps that allow users to explore ancient texts
with augmented reality, location-based features, and
geo-referencing in historical maps: go.nmc.org/bava

42. Bibliometric and
Citation Technologies

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ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that
distinguishes one researcher from another, and
supports automated linkages between a person and
their professional activities ensuring that each person’s
work is recognized: go.nmc.org/orcid

44. Open Content

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The Staffordshire University Online Repository is an
open access institutional research repository designed
to house the research and scholarly output of the
University’s staff and researchers: go.nmc.org/staf

46. Semantic Web and
Linked Data

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The AV portal of the German National Library of
Science and Technology provides multimedia retrieval
methods for searching within high-grade scientific
films. Digital Object Identifiers enable the films and
video segments to be cited as easily as texts:
go.nmc.org/tib

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