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Libraries o the Future
JISC campaigns
For many years technology has been transorming education and research,bringing about proound changes to the ways in which learners, teachers,librarians, administrators and researchers undertake their work. JISCcampaigns are an attempt to initiate conversations about the issues that areemerging as central to the sector.The urther and higher education sectors have responded quickly and eectivelyto change, harnessing the potential o technology to support, or example,access to a wide range o online resources, widening participation, morestudent-centred approaches to learning, innovative, complex and distributedresearch collaborations, and much more. However, many challenges remain.While some o these challenges may be better addressed at the institutionallevel, others may benet rom broader approaches or rom national debatesabout how technology can be ully integrated into the lie and work o collegesand universities and help ensure that UK education and research remain amongthe best in the world.JISC is at the oreront o many o the issues that have an impact on educationand research and JISC ‘campaigns’ are an attempt to initiate conversations– with national organisations and with practitioners, researchers, librarians,senior managers, administrators and others – about the issues that areemerging as central to the sector.As well as the Libraries o the Future campaign – the ocus o this brochure –JISC recently ran a Student Experiences o Technology campaign:
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Libraries are at a turning point. Astechnology rapidly transorms the waywe access inormation, and resourcesare increasingly available online and indigital ormats, the established role othe library as a physical space housingracks o books is looking increasinglyout o step with the needs o studentsand researchers.Allied with technology, library users’needs and preerences are helping todrive the change in libraries. Students,researchers and teachers now expectto be able to access inormation aroundthe clock, rom almost anywhere inthe world and via a growing number odevices, rom laptops to phones.What does this mean or the academiclibrary as we know it? What will it looklike in 10 years’ time? Will it exist in itscurrent physical orm? What role willlibrarians play in supporting learningand research in the digital age?Through the Libraries o the Futurecampaign JISC has opened up thesequestions to a stimulating andenriching discussion. The debate isgrounded in JISC’s commitment tolibraries and the services they oer as avital part o the education and researchinrastructure and an essential parto supporting the UK’s educationsystem. The campaign builds on JISC’srich history o supporting the librarysector to work more eectively usingtechnology and working in partnershipwith researchers and educators.
…libraries mustrethink the way they work and the way that they supportlearning teachingand research.
JISC has a long-established reputationworking with libraries in universitiesand colleges to put in place changeprogrammes and to recognise that in theage o the internet and the other digitalopportunities, libraries must rethinkthe way they work and the way that theysupport learning, teaching and research.The Libraries o the Future campaignhas taken this debate to a wideraudience, through high-proledebates, publications and newspapersupplements and through the newtechnologies themselves, rom socialnetworks to Twitter and Second Lie.
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