未来二十年,图书馆是什么模样?

What Will Libraries Look Like in the Next Twenty Years?

进入21世纪以来,在新一轮科技革命和产业变革的推动下,图书馆事业与其他各行各业一样面临转型与升级的机遇与挑战。一方面,图书馆正在从信息处理与服务向更广范围的学术交流与研究的方向拓展,其服务重心从面向馆内读者向回应社会(社区)发展需求转变。另一方面,近二十年开放获取运动的稳步前行为图书馆向知识基础设施的方向演变创造了良好的环境。在未来二十年里,图书馆将在知识基础设施建设和开放科学进展中,扮演越来越重要的角色。作者以连接、导航和创造三个关键词提出今后努力的方向:第一,图书馆员要成为连接的推进者和领导者,发挥组织、协调及动员各类资源的能力;第二,图书馆员要积极参与开放科学发展的进程,并发挥其在资源管理、数据利用以及咨询服务方面的导航能力;第三,图书馆要努力营造有利于用户创新与创造的环境,助力经济与文化发展。

Driven by a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation,librarianship,like other industries,is facing opportunities and challenges of transformation and upgrading.On the one hand,the library is expanding from information processing and information service to a wider range of academic exchanges and research,and its service focus is changing from serving readers in the library to responding to social(community)development needs.On the other hand,the steady progress of the open access movement in the past two decades has created a favorable environment for libraries to evolve towards knowledge infrastructure.In the next two decades,libraries will play an increasingly important role in the construction of knowledge infrastructure and the advancement of open science.The author uses three keywords–connection,navigation and creation–to propose the direction of future efforts.First,librarians must become promoters and leaders of connections,exerting their ability to organize,coordinate and mobilize various resources.Second,librarians must actively participate in the process of open science development and give full play to their expertise in resource management,data utilization and reference service.Third,libraries should strive to create an environment conducive to user innovation and creation,so as to assist economic and cultural development.