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Saturday, October 23, 2010

The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research Libraries

The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research LibrariesThe Association of Research Libraries has released The ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User's Guide for Research Libraries. The package, which contains the 'ARL 2030 Scenario Set' and an accompanying user's guide, is the product of a project to promote visioning and scanning activities among research libraries. ARL's 'Envisioning Research Library Futures: A Scenario Thinking Project' employed a scenario planning process to develop four scenarios for 2030, which answered the question, 'How do we transform our organization(s) to create differential value for future users (individuals, institutions, and beyond), given the external dynamics redefining the research environment over the next 20 years?'

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