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Marketing + Outreach

Management + Business Acumen

Which World? Using Far-Fetched Scenarios to Map out the Future of Libraries

Sunday, July 16, 2023
11:30am – 12:30pm EDT
Location: Hynes-304
What if law libraries across the country planned for a 2020 global pandemic – back in 1996?
What if AI replaced lawyers?
What if a search engine for the physical world was created?
What if law libraries and books were deemed illegal and banished from society?

If you are saying to yourself, “This is ridiculous!” then this session is for you. Come find out why “ridiculous” may be probable, possible, or preferred futures based on current trend patterns.

Join this interactive session to play with the future and create functional views of alternative futures through far-fetched scenarios. The best way we can adapt to whatever the future may hold is to spend time considering what is possible and building strategies for law librarians to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

Target Audience:

This interactive training is designed for all librarians, library support staff, administration, consultants representing all types of law libraries.

Takeaways:

  • Participants will be able to articulate the importance of recognizing how assumptions impact decision-making and outcomes and how scenarios counter assumptions.
  • Participants will know how to create functional views of alternative futures for their law libraries using hypothetical situations.
  • Participants can identify the key to developing scenarios to transform the culture of the library by ensuring law librarians are equipped to map the future within social, political, economic, environmental, and technological drivers and be able to make decisions to inform the future of law libraries.