ABSTRACT

In their dual roles as community hubs and knowledge facilitators, libraries of the future will experience major change: they will have fewer books and increased available physical space; they will shift from content warehouses to content creation enablers; they will serve new types of visitors including digital natives, knowledge creators, and entrepreneurial learners. These trends will affect four tools used to achieve library goals: technology, collaboration, physical space, and people. This article summarizes a literature review, performed on behalf of the Squamish Public Library in British Columbia, Canada, that examined these future public library trends.

摘要

作为社区中心和知识促进者的双重角色，未来的图书馆将经历重大变化：他们将拥有更少的书籍和更多的可用物理空间；他们将从内容仓库转向内容创建推动者；他们将服务于新类型的访客，包括数字原住民、知识创造者和创业学习者。这些趋势将影响用于实现图书馆目标的四种工具：技术、协作、物理空间和人员。本文总结了代表加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省 Squamish 公共图书馆进行的文献综述，研究了这些未来公共图书馆的趋势。