Online Learning Update

December 5, 2016

MIT task force releases preliminary “Future of Libraries” report

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:10 am

by Peter Dizikes. MIT News Office

An MIT task force is releasing a preliminary report featuring a set of proposals aimed at steering MIT’s library system toward becoming an “open global platform” enabling the “discovery, use, and stewardship of information and knowledge” for future generations. The report, based on a year of work since the formation of the task force, contains general recommendations intended to develop “a global library for a global university,” while strengthening the library system’s relationship with the local academic community and public sphere. “For the MIT Libraries, the better world we seek is one in which there is abundant, equitable, meaningful access to knowledge and to the products of the full life cycle of research,” the report states. “Enduring global access to knowledge requires sustainable models for ensuring that past and present knowledge are available long into the future.”

https://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-task-force-releases-preliminary-future-libraries-report-1024

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