Library Futures 2019. Keith Webster -- Building the library of the future: leveraging OCLC research

Keith Webster uses a foresight framework to illustrate the applicability of a selection of OCLC research models to building a vision for the research library of the future. He builds upon the “University Futures, Library Futures“ study to locate the library in the future of the academy, and to understand the impact of a shift from a predominantly print-based to a digital-based information environment on the library’s role in the research enterprise. The broad shift to a world in which the products of rese