Forecasting the future of academic librarianship

John Dupuis, science librarian at York University, is working his long running blog series “My Job in 10 Years” into a book. Dupuis has been working on this series since 2005 where he started to reflect on trends in collections. The series reflects on changes in publishing, the physical space of the library and advocating for the role of libraries in the university context. As we approach 2020, Dupuis argues that print books will still be produced but journals will change by moving from the concept of issues to simply publishing individual articles. There are many good points to the articles and blog posts that John has written over the past several years. The collections collection is an important one – as the free Web gets better and better, how and what should be bought? If the academic publishing industry goes the same way as newspapers, then few publications will be available for purchase at any rate.

While we all wait for the book, you can read an article version of the idea from York University’s repository.

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3. The Web2.You Conference at McGill University
4. Book Review: “Marketing Today’s Academic Library,” by Brian Matthews