06 January 2022: “IFLA is happy to share the 2021 Update of its Trend Report, based on the ideas submitted by emerging library leaders ahead of our World Library and Information Congress. We invite you to look through, and think how these trends will interact and impact upon our institutions, our profession and our communities….The Update shares 20 different suggested trends – some complementary, some contradictory – that the people who will be leading our field in ten years felt would mark their professional lives. For each one, a short section highlights key questions and aspects, as well as potential responses for the library field. The trends are:
- Tough times ahead
- Virtual is here to stay
- The comeback of physical spaces
- The rise of soft skills
- Diversity gets taken seriously
- An environmental reckoning
- A mobile popupation
- The impatient user
- An analogue backlash
- Scale matters
- Data domination
- Search transformed
- Race to the extremes
- Lifelong learners
- A single, global collection
- The privatisation of knowledge
- Qualifications matter
- Information literacy recognised
- ‘Open’ raises questions about libraries’ unique selling point
- Inequalities deepen…”
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