"The Future of Futures:  Designing the Future"

from Library Journal; 18 SEP 16

An article about a potential future for libraries...

And, ultimately, that’s the library mission. “As a leader, you’re always looking ahead; you scan the horizon,” says Sandlian Smith. “But I also think that it’s our job to help communicate the vision of the future or provoke that conversation with our community and our staff and our board, to look at trends, to listen, to do an analysis of the patterns, and project what lies ahead…. That vision of what could be translates into the hard work of making something realistically happen.”