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Our Big Announcement: What Will Your Library Look Like in 2025? | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. Our Big Announcement: What Will Your Library Look Like in 2025? What will your library look like in 2025? Looking to the future, the challenges facing libraries may seem daunting, but libraries have always evolved to meet the needs of their communities. Has something to contribute. What is an MNLFI Workshop. Want to lead your own discussion? Is a set of resources intended to support local conversations and personal exploration about the future of libraries without facilitatio...
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Shared Visions - MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. Shared Visions of 2025. Envision the library of 2025. That’s what the MNLFI group was tasked with upon inception. What we found is that your vision for 2025 depends on your vantage point. So instead of reporting on broad trends likely to affect library services in the future, we want to set the stage for local conversations about what those trends mean for you and your library. May 2, 2012: MNLFI Steering Committee and MNLFI members). How do you envision the library in 2025?
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Discussion Questions | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. After selecting a scenario to discuss with your colleagues, use these discussion questions to get that conversation started. These questions follow the ORID strategic questioning method, which proposes Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, and Decisional questions to move groups through a conversation. Learn more about ORID. O: What words or phrases stuck out to you? R: What was most exciting? R: Where were you anxious? I: How else might this scenario play out?
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MNLFI Workshops | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. Envision your library in 2025 with an MNLFI facilitated workshop. The Minnesota Library Futurists would like to help your library or organization facilitate a conversation about the future of library services. A facilitated workshop is. An in-person session led by a small group of MNLFI members at your location. An opportunity to engage your staff, organization or community in planning for the future of library services. A practical exercise with concrete outcomes. Provide a ...
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Resources for Further Reading | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. Resources for Further Reading. A number of articles, websites, and reports informed the conversations held by the MNLFI group and may serve a similar purpose for you. This content all deals, either implicitly or explicitly, with the future. We’ve collected links to these readings in a shared online document and organized them into several sections:. Education and Information Literacy. Physical and Virtual Spaces. Public Library / General. Academic Library / General.
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Organizational Planning | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. 1 Library personnel, Board members, and a select group of users should evaluate their library/organization’s. A mission statement is a statement of purpose. Who do you serve? What do you do? What do you provide that people cannot get elsewhere? Why do you exist? The mission statement is concrete. You should be able to read it and say This is what we do; this is why we are here. How do you carry out your mission statement/ How do you behave? What are your priorities of service?
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MNLFI Toolkit | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. Envision your library in 2025 with your own team using the MNLFI Toolkit. The MNLFI Toolkit helps library staff consider the possibilities of 2025 related to library users, library services, the information environment and more. The toolkit is intended to help organizations that cannot host an MNLFI facilitated workshop to support local conversations or by individuals interested in thinking about the future of libraries. The MNLFI Toolkit includes:. Use MNLFI 2025 Scenarios.
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About Us | MNLFIMNLFI
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Please input the following:. The Minnesota Library Futures Initiative (MNLFI) is designed to be a focused conversation that addresses how libraries can prepare for changes occurring in Minnesota now and in the future. The key question at this point is How do the current and projected political, economic and social environments affect the delivery of library service in Minnesota? Envisioning the library of 2025 isn’t something that only a small group of people can do by reporting on broad, theoretical tre...
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MNLFI 2025 Scenarios | MNLFIMNLFI
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1 Most books are available digitally. 2 Most patrons have a smart device they use to access content. 3 The majority of scholarly information is open. 4 Google Books (or some other private-sector platform) is the major way users discover, access, and read books. 5 Communities, governments, other institutions merge due to ongoing budget declines. 6 Nearly all people need digital media skills. 7 Libraries balance the needs of graying populations with the needs of born digital generations. 18 School librarie...
