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The research behind the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition is jointly conducted by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich. Our partners’ critical participation in the production of this report and their strong support for the NMC Horizon Project is gratefully acknowledged.

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Focus On:

• UB Faculty, Students, and Staff• Institutional Directions• Libraries’ Staff Learning and Growth• Financial Health

Discussion Questions• How can academic and research libraries prepare for

and keep pace with trends and technologies that are further off in the distance?

• What kinds of strategies and resources can academic and research libraries develop to start solving the challenges in the report -- while making the solutions scalable?

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Practice

Dreaming and Doing!

Key Trends 2014

MID-RANGE TRENDS:

LONG-RANGE TRENDS:

• Increasing Focus on Research Data Management for Publications

• Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery

• Evolving Nature of the Scholarly Record• Increasing Accessibility of Research

Content

• Continual Progress in Technology, Standards, and Infrastructure

• Rise of New Forms of Multidisciplinary Research Flickr Photo via Creative Tools

FAST TRENDS:

Increasing Focus on Research Data Management

The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Physics and Astronomy’ SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System contains 10.7 million scholarly records, and tracks citations and usage of their resources: go.nmc.org/saonasa

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Prioritization of Mobile Content and Delivery

Duke University Libraries is using the “BrowZine” app for tablets to make library resources more mobile-friendly, enabling library patrons to browse, read, and monitor academic journals: go.nmc.org/duke

Evolving Nature of the Scholarly Record

University of California Davis launched the “Innovation in Scholarly Communication” project to identify the changes that are impacting traditional modes of publication in the digital age: go.nmc.org/icis

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Increasing Accessibility of Research Content

Initiated by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC is an international alliance of 800+ institutions that helps its global members establish sustainable systems of open scholarship: go.nmc.org/sparc

Rise of New Forms of Multi-Disciplinary

Research

As an addition to Hesburgh Libraries, the University of Notre Dame built Multidisciplinary Research Buildings to provide space to foster collaboration and research among faculty and students: go.nmc.org/ndumdr

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Significant Challenges 2014

SOLVABLE CHALLENGES:

DIFFICULT CHALLENGES:

WICKED CHALLENGES:

• Embedding Academic and Research Libraries in the Curriculum

• Rethinking the Roles and Skills of Librarians

• Capturing and Archiving the Digital Outputs of Research as Collection Material

• Competition from Alternative Avenues of Discovery

• Embracing the Need for Radical Change• Maintaining Ongoing Integration, Interoperability,

and Collaborative Projects

Embedding Academic and Research Libraries

in the Curriculum

The staff at the Merrill-Cazier Library at Utah State uses a curriculum-integrated method to information literacy by working closely with faculty to customize instruction for specific majors: go.nmc.org/merrill

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Rethinking the Roles and Skills of Librarians

The Harvard Law School library developed an academic technology project manager position, focused on providing support for a suite of open-source, online classroom tools called H2O that are being used by the law school’s faculty: go.nmc.org/hls

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Capturing and Archiving the Digital

Outputs of Research as Collection Material

The British Library, Cambridge University Library, Trinity College Library Dublin, and others are following new regulations known as legal deposit to ensure that temporary materials such as websites and e-books can be collected and preserved: go.nmc.org/collect

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Competition from Alternative Avenues of

Discovery

OCLC Research launched the “Wikipedia Library Project” pilot in an effort to make sources for citations more accessible to Wikipedia editors: go.nmc.org/oclc

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Embracing the Need for Radical Change

The circulation team at the Woodward Library at the University of British Colombia drafted the “Strategic Plan,” which promotes continuous support and creative inspiration for staff: go.nmc.org/woodw

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Technologies to Watch 2014

TWO TO THREE YEARS:

FOUR TO FIVE YEARS:

• Electronic Publishing• Mobile Apps

• Bibliometrics and Citation Technologies

• Open Content

• The Internet of Things• Semantic Web and Linked Data

ONE YEAR OR LESS:

Electronic Publishing

Vectors is a USC scholarly journal that focuses on how technology transforms, and/or impedes social relations. It uses a peer-reviewed format and publishes only multimedia works: go.nmc.org/vect

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Mobile Apps

The Bavarian State Library in Germany offers multiple mobile apps that allow users to explore ancient texts with augmented reality, location-based features, and geo-referencing in historical maps: go.nmc.org/bava

Bibliometric and Citation Technologies

ORCiD provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes one researcher from another, and supports automated linkages between a person and their professional activities ensuring that each person’s work is recognized: go.nmc.org/orcid

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Open Content

The Staffordshire University Online Repository is an open access institutional research repository designed to house the research and scholarly output of the University’s staff and researchers: go.nmc.org/staf

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Semantic Web and Linked Data

The AV portal of the German National Library of Science and Technology provides multimedia retrieval methods for searching within high-grade scientific films. Digital Object Identifiers enable the films and video segments to be cited as easily as texts: go.nmc.org/tib

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