[LIS-Forum] Report : Future of Libraries - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT

[Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar]

Respected All

An MIT task force is releasing a preliminary report featuring a set of
proposals aimed at steering MIT’s library system toward becoming an “open
global platform” enabling the “discovery, use, and stewardship of
information and knowledge” for future generations.

The report, based on a year of work since the formation of the task force,
contains general recommendations intended to develop “a global library for
a global university,” while strengthening the library system’s relationship
with the local academic community and public sphere.

“For the MIT Libraries, the better world we seek is one in which there is
abundant, equitable, meaningful access to knowledge and to the products of
the full life cycle of research,” the report states. “Enduring global
access to knowledge requires sustainable models for ensuring that past and
present knowledge are available long into the future.”

“The task force spent significant time imagining the kind of library we
need at an institution that aims to improve the world,” said Chris Bourg,
director of MIT Libraries, who served as the task force chair. “This is an
opportunity to go big, to invent the future of the information landscape,
and to envision how we can leverage the unique strengths, expertise, and
values of MIT to lead the way.”

Fulltext Report : https://future-of-libraries.mit.edu/sites/default/files/
FutureLibraries-PrelimReport-Final.pdf
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Warm Regards

Dr. Sandeep Bhavsar
Librarian

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