The seventh and final installment of Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning explores how libraries can thoughtfully integrate technology into their buildings to support a range of user needs, from active collaboration to reflection and focused study. The section released highlights the ways in which libraries are addressing the challenge in their space planning and programming, specifically addressing the effects of the Internet of Things (IoT), immersive reality, and artificial intelligence on how libraries conceptualise and create the learning and collaboration environments of the future.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and EDUCAUSE seek to publish the full report by Sarah Lippincott. Conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic, the study is an excellent resource for research libraries as they identify strategic opportunities to adopt and engage with emerging technologies. Lippincott’s research considers policies and practices already underway, the ways in which research library values and professional expertise inform and shape library engagement with technologies, the ways library and library worker roles are being reconceptualised, and the implications of a range of technologies on how the library fulfills its mission. The final report will include Lippincott’s reflections on the impact of COVID-19.
The seven installments of the report have been published as they became available at https://doi.org/10.29242/report.emergingtech2020.landscape.
This work is part of a joint ARL-CNI-EDUCAUSE initiative to advance research libraries’ impact in a world shaped by emerging technologies. In March 2020, the initiative published a summary of interviews with experts in research and academic technologies from several allied sectors. In August 2020, the initiative released a report on two invitational workshops focused on identifying achievable and desirable opportunities for research libraries.
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