IFLA Trend Report 2024 : facing the future of information with confidence.
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2024
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Digital Media Research Centre
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The IFLA Trend Report 2024 is the first major update of this publication since the 2013 original, and represents a key pillar of our work to support the library field to be ready to face the future. Through building the reflex and ability to integrate the future into our planning today, libraries can be more resilient and so more sustainable.
This, in turn, brings benefits to the communities that libraries serve, be they the population of a local area, the students and faculty of a university, or a country as a whole in the case of national libraries.
The focus throughout is on the future of the information and knowledge environment, and how this influences – and is influenced by – what happens in other fields, such as civic life, the environment and more. This is broader than looking only at libraries and technology, but narrower than a general exploration of macro trends. In both of these cases, there is already a wide range of publications.
The report is made up of two major elements – a set of trends identified on the basis of a comprehensive review of the literature review, and then a set of scenarios which explore the different sorts of future that we could face.
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Dezuanni, M., Osman, K. Burton, A. L. & Heck, E. (2024) IFLA Trend Report 2024: Facing the future of information with confidence. Brisbane: Digital Media Research Centre.