2003 OCLC Environmental Scan:
Pattern Recognition

Contents

The Landscape: Overview

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• Purpose, Scope & Notes on Methodology

Social landscape

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• Major trends:
  • Self-service: moving to self-sufficiency
  • Satsifaction
  • Seamlessness
• Implications and feedback

Economic landscape

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• Major trends:
  • Slow economic growth worldwide
  • Worldwide education and library spending
  • A silver lining—shared infrastructures
  • Funding for the public good
• Implications and feedback

Technology landscape

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• Major trends:
  • Bringing structure to unstructured data
  • Distributed, component-based software
  • A move to open-source software
  • Security, authentication and Digital Rights Management
• Implications and feedback

Research and learning landscape

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• Major trends:
  • Reduced funding
  • Proliferation of e-learning
  • Lifelong learning in the community
  • The changing pattern of research and learning in higher education
  • Institutional repositories, scholarly communication and open access
  • New flows of scholarly materials
• Implications and feedback

Library landscape

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• Major trends, the Social Landscape:
  • Staffing
  • New roles
  • Accommodating users
  • Traditional versus nontraditional content
  • Preservation and persistence
  • Funding and accountability
  • Collaboration
• Major trends, the Technology Landscape:
  • An increasingly interconnected environment
  • Network services and architecture
  • New standards
  • Universal access to information
• Implications and feedback

Future frameworks

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• Pattern one: decrease in guided access to content
• Pattern two: disaggregation
• Pattern three: collaboration
• Future frameworks
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Appendices

• Glossary
• Collections grid
• People consulted
• Readings and sources

Publication information

ISBN: 1-55653-352-7

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Cataloged in WorldCat® on December 19, 2003. OCLC Control Number: 53934212

Principal contributors

Cathy De Rosa
Lorcan Dempsey
Alane Wilson

Editor

Alane Wilson

Graphics and layout

Rick Limes
Linda Shepard

Thanks to the many OCLC staff who contributed in a wide variety of capacities, from research to editing to interviewing for this report.

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• The Landscape: Overview section (53.2K)
• The Social Landscape section (1.66M)
• The Economic Landscape section (1.52M)
• The Technology Landscape section (2.69M)
• The Research and Learning Landscape section (1.75M)
• The Library Landscape section (9.82M)
• Future Frameworks section (942Kb)