Established in 2014, the American Library Association's Center for the Future of Libraries is dedicated to anticipating future trends and supporting forward-looking innovation in libraries. On this website, visitors can learn more about emerging library trends, keep abreast of the Center's activities via its blog, and download and read related reports. The Trends section of this website is especially interesting. Here, visitors will find information about 25 emerging movements and issues in libraries, ranging from Connected Learning to Robots to concerns about online Anonymity. Each trend includes an overview with links to related resources, and trends can also be browsed by classification (including Society, Technology, and Demographics). A specific highlight of the Library of the Future Blog, is Read for Later, "a weekly wrap-up of news and articles to help library professionals think about the future of our collections, spaces, services, partners, and roles in the community." Here, readers will find dozens of articles and resources that will be of interest to forward-looking librarians. For instance, in the March 27, 2017 Read for Later, visitors can download the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report on libraries, a sixty-page investigation of the opportunities and challenges of adopting new technologies in academic and research libraries.
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