From: "Joan K. Lippincott" Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:26:30 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [108.48.53.217] (account joan@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.204]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.1.12) with ESMTPSA id 32343030 for cni-announce@cni.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:17:59 -0400 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_AE24E6EE-C4DC-43BB-A6E9-230D2CA2776B" Subject: Horizon Report - Library Edition 2017 Available X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:17:57 -0400 X-Original-To: "cni-announce@cni.org (cni-announce@cni.org)" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) --Apple-Mail=_AE24E6EE-C4DC-43BB-A6E9-230D2CA2776B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Dear cni-announce subscribers, Many of you will be interested to learn that The New Media Consortium = (NMC), University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische = Informationsbibliothek (TIB), ETH Library, and the Association of = College & Research Libraries (ACRL) jointly released the NMC Horizon = Report > 2017 Library Edition at the ACRL 2017 Conference in Baltimore. = This is the third edition of the NMC Horizon Report that explores the = realm of academic and research libraries in a global context. The topics in the report were selected by a diverse panel of 75 experts = (I participated in this panel). Library leaders, librarians, = technologists, industry leaders, and other key stakeholders from 14 = countries comprise this year=92s expert panel. They engaged in a = three-month virtual discussion to share how the trends, challenges, and = technologies are materializing in their environments. The report identified 6 trends on 3 time horizons: research data = management, valuing the user experience, patrons as creators, rethinking = library spaces, cross-institutional collaboration, and evolving nature = of the scholarly record. In addition, the report discusses challenges = impeding technology adoption in academic and research libraries and = describes important technology developments with a particular impact on = libraries. There is much rich detail in the report, freely available, including = references, links to projects, and a comparison of trends over the three = library-focused Horizon reports. --Joan Lippincott, CNI= --Apple-Mail=_AE24E6EE-C4DC-43BB-A6E9-230D2CA2776B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 NMC Horizon = Report > 2017 Library Edition at the ACRL 2017 = Conference in Baltimore. This is the third edition of the NMC Horizon = Report that explores the realm of academic and research libraries in a = global context.

The topics in the report were = selected by a diverse panel of 75 experts (I participated in this = panel). Library leaders, librarians, technologists, industry leaders, = and other key stakeholders from 14 countries comprise this year=92s = expert panel. They engaged in a three-month virtual discussion to share = how the trends, challenges, and technologies are materializing in their = environments.

The report identified 6 trends on = 3 time horizons: research data management, valuing the user experience, = patrons as creators, rethinking library spaces, cross-institutional = collaboration, and evolving nature of the scholarly record. In addition, = the report discusses challenges impeding technology adoption in academic = and research libraries and describes important technology developments = with a particular impact on libraries.

There is = much rich detail in the report, freely available, including references, = links to projects, and a comparison of trends over the three = library-focused Horizon reports.

--Joan = Lippincott, CNI
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