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Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition</a> [pdf],
produced in collaboration with the University of
Applied Sciences in Chur, the Technische
Informationsbibliothek in Hannover, and the
ETH-Bibliothek in Zurich. The NMC Horizon Project
started in 2002, and each year it investigates
emerging technologies and trends likely to affect
education around the globe. That means the Library
Edition is focused on academic and research
libraries rather than public libraries, but some
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><strong>Prioritization
of mobile content and delivery</strong> (page
8) "'The Right to e-Read' campaign by the
European Bureau of Library Information and
Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) is a
Europe-wide initiative to raise awareness for
stakeholders and policy makers about the
challenges libraries face in providing e-books
and digital content because of copyright
concerns. Libraries in the United States are
closely following the legal policies regarding
the purchasing and resale of digital content."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><strong>Rethinking
the roles and skills of librarians</strong>
(page 22) "A number of universities have
experimented with fellowship programs and other
non-permanent hiring situations that bring in
people with the desired skills to work on
discipline-specific projects. This strategy
provides libraries the opportunity to test new
types of professionals and see if their roles
merit the creation of a new position."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><strong>Competition
from alternative avenues of discovery</strong>
(page 26) "A recent Slate article explored
libraries' potential transition from print
materials to technology and training. Academic
and research libraries are incorporating more
authentic experiences for information discovery
- immersive opportunities that Google Scholar
and Wikipedia cannot yet foster. Seattle
University's Lemieux Library, for example, is
home to the Media Production Center where
students and faculty receive the training and
support needed to turn their creative ideas into
tangible products."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><strong>Semantic
web and linked data</strong> (page 44)
"Library catalogs will be a more valuable
information resource if their metadata is an
interoperable part of the semantic web and not
siloed in separate inaccessible databases. It is
no longer enough for libraries to have their own
websites with collection data; there is growing
emphasis to integrate these collection catalogs
into sites and services more frequently accessed
by users."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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as classroom.</a> (<em>Library Journal</em>,
5/15/2014, p36 | Michael Stevens)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/chc/detail?sid=aac7f842-64bd-4b9d-aed3-1c44cd642926%40sessionmgr114&vid=0&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9Y2hjLWxpdmU%3d#db=cmh&AN=96236915">Emerging
technologies center.</a> (<em>Nursing
Education Perspectives</em>, Mar/Apr 2014,
p131-132 | Diane J. Skiba)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=932cf3c8-508a-4be3-802d-8e7e552f1b42%40sessionmgr113&vid=0&hid=124&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=614872">The
New Media Centers' consortium: A tool for
legitimizing technology in higher education.</a>
(<em>Journal of Research on Computing in
Education</em>, Spring 1998, p296,11p. |
David Richard Moore and John K. Burton)</li>
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