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Conference to be held at April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada. Deadline for submissions is November 12, 2012. Including the following topics: libraries and preservation in 2023; digital traces and archives new publics, movements going global and communities of the future manifestos for the next generation new stories for new screens: e-literatures, immersive/augmented worlds, future cinema, games ways of working - methodologies, code, communities, funding future classrooms, curricula, and pedagogies maker movements; -- tools we haven't built yet, but that we desperately need visualization and data-driven futures mobility, future city spaces, built and liquid architectures crowdsourcing (and/in) the future teleologies and their discontents new and imagined creative practices

The aims of the roundtable were to provide an international perspective on the likely impact of an open access future on librarians, to identify support and skills required for librarians in such a future, and to further current discussion on support for the library community from their institutions, publishers, funders and other parties.

The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future

(International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) Annual Conference 2010 will take place for the first time in Helsinki, Finland, on June 10 and 11, 2010. From Information to Innovation has been chosen as the main theme of the conference and will highlight the significance of information as the enabler and catalyst for scientific, technical and business developments and point to to elements of success in building the future. There are three inspiring sub-themes: Information as the lifeblood of research and innovation - Finnish cases Intelligent information solutions and services Creating the future - towards the global innovation economy

By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.

Four decades of sociological research points to a future society where education performance will be the singular dominant factor in social status attainment, and education will be one of the most transforming of social institutions for individuals and other social institutions

From a survey of ACRL member libraries, this report examines the scope of library participation in data research services while identifying future opportunities for collaboration, especially in research intensive institutions.

seems not many libraries are involved in RDS yet

The authors note that licenses need to allow libraries to: make new uses of the licensed content, share information with peers about licensing terms, and rest assured that licensed content will be available in the future.

With increased pressure on universities and researchers to preserve research data for re-use in the future, JISC's Research Integrity Conference considered the role of universities in safeguarding research integrity and looked into the real issues being faced by universities from a strategic and technical perspective

A timely, well-researched and balanced account of the future of research libraries and their collections. Spiro and Henry's "Can a new research library be all-digital" lays out all the important considerations for any library considering the digital path.

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

Discussion about what "patrimony" and "heritage" and a "universal knowledge collection" means and the place of HathiTrust and Google digitization project in the future National Dgitial Library

"Future Professional Communication in Astronomy II"