Futures thinking for academic librarians: Higher education in 2025

Information Services and Use

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 57-90

  Staley, David J ^a   Malenfant, Kara J ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Association of College and Research Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; data visualization; futures research; librarians; scenario space

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC CULTURE; ACADEMIC LIBRARIES; CURRENT TRENDS; EXPERT JUDGMENT; FUTURES RESEARCH; HIGH IMPACT; HIGH PROBABILITY; HIGHER EDUCATION; LIBRARIANS; POLITICAL CLIMATE; POSSIBLE FUTURES; PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; RESEARCH LIBRARIES; SCENARIO SPACE; SOCIETAL VALUES; STRATEGIC THINKING; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DISTANCE EDUCATION; ECOLOGY; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION;

LIBRARIES;

EID: 77956911573     PISSN: 01675265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2010-0614     Document Type: Article

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