Three trends are predicted to impact libraries in 2016: 1. Library websites will modernize, moving to content management systems like Drupal or WordPress for easier updating. 2. More libraries will establish makerspaces to engage patrons. 3. The Internet of Things will start affecting libraries internally through connected infrastructure and externally through mobile connectivity options like beacons. These changes aim to improve library services.

1. Related
Practices and
Trends

2. Possible emerging trends for 2016
• According to David Lee King (Digital Services Director,
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library) said that there
are possible trends that will emerge in 2016.
• Here are three trends that he think that will start impacting libraries
in 2016. Some of these are actual emerging trends, and some of them
lean more toward “tipping points”—trends that some libraries have
already implemented, but have yet to be embraced by other libraries.

3. Trend No. 1.
Library websites join the 21st century. Today, most libraries have
a website and probably some form of social media account
(usually a Facebook page). Have you looked at those websites
lately? Many are, for the most part, a bit out-of-date. Many are still
hand-coded, aren’t using a modern CMS such as Drupal or
WordPress, and still need the IT department to post and update
content. In some cases, the library’s website back end isn’t even
controlled by the library—it’s in the domain of the city, the county,
or the university’s web services department.

4. Trend No. 2
Makerspaces help re-“make” the library. Some
libraries have jumped with both feet into the
makerspace movement. Many other libraries,
however, are still in that “let’s wait and see
where this is going” phase.

5. Trend No. 3
•The Internet of Things (IoT) will start
impacting the library. The IoT-related
changes will begin to affect library
services, both internally and externally, in
the next few years.

6. • The IoT will bring changes to internal library infrastructure
and functions. Aging back-end systems will be replaced by
newer, “connected-to-the-web” systems. For example, newer
HVAC systems and lighting systems can now be controlled by
apps on a staff member’s smartphone, even if that employee
isn’t in the building. When problems occur with these newer
systems, notifications and alerts can be sent out automatically
to appropriate library staffers.

7. •Externally, our library customers are
becoming more accustomed to connecting to
businesses and people via their smartphones.
More people will want to connect to the
library in this way too.

8. •An easy way to facilitate mobile connectivity is by using
social media channels such as Facebook or Twitter. There are
other ways to facilitate connectivity too. For example, some
libraries are currently experimenting with iBeacon
technology and other similar sensor-based technologies that
track customers throughout the library building, provide
better gate counts, and push relevant information to
customers about library classes and services.

9. •Improved websites, expanding library
makerspaces, and the IoT in libraries are all
great things for the library industry.

10. LEADERSHIP (21st CENTURY)
•Leadership is an elusive concept. It is easier
to recognize than to describe in words.
•Managers should also be leaders, but leaders
need not be managers.
•Leaders are made and not born.

11. 3 LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
1)Individual – leader is mentor, coach, motivator
2)Group – leader focuses on team building and
resolving conflict.
3)Leader builds an organizational culture – modern
leadership is focused on human relations and is not
reserve for those at the top and not about control or
manipulation.

12. RESEARCH
•Research is careful critical study or examination in seeking
facts or principles; intelligent & diligent investigation in
order to ascertain something.
• In India, individual research started in 1930’s with Dr.
R.S. Ranganathan who was actively involved in various
areas of librarianship viz. classification, cataloguing,
documentation, library administration, etc.
• At present, formal research in LIS is conducted at 4 levels,
viz. MLISc, Mphil, PhD 7 D.Litt

13. TRENDS IN LIS RESEARCH
•In field or library science research, US made the premier
attempt.
• The study entitled ‘A Guide to Sources of 17th century
English History in Selected Reports of the Royal
Commission on Historical Manuscripts’ by Eleanor S.
Upton was awarded PhD by the Chicago University in
1930.
• It is considered as the 1st doctoral degree in library science

14. • During 1950’s universities namely, Illinois, Michigan, Columbia, Western
Reserve, California & Rutgers produced 129 PhD dissertation
• Library schools in USA focused their research during 1990s in the
following areas:
- Management
- Utilization of variety of communication media &
technologies in Library & information Centers
- Acquisition
- Information system, documentation, IT
- User studies
- LIS education
- Databases

15. CURRENT TRENDS
• According to NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
COMMISSION (NKC) report (March 2007), “ has a
long tradition of libraries & has contributed to the
development of basic concept in the discipline such
as fundamental principles of library services &
knowledge organization tools, R & D activities in
LIS today are extremely limited. This is utmost
concern for the growth of LIS profession in India.

16. • Every year the Indian Association of teachers of Library &
Information Science (IATLIS) holds a seminar on topics of library
education & research.
• The literature of the library education & research is enormous, though
repetitive & inflated.
• The blame of wholly put on the lack of infrastructure & unavailability
of funds.
• The new maladies that have recently inflicted the Lis research:
- Ghost writing
- Outsourcing of data processing
- Data cooking
- Rampant plagiarism