Abstract

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.

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