MLIS students share visions of libraries' future
Chance Hunt’s winter Future of Libraries course sought to equip students with practical skills to anticipate what lies ahead for libraries and act on trends. He came away impressed by what he saw in their work.“With these students, future libraries will be strong, they will be compassionate, and they will be essential to a thriving community,” said Hunt, an associate teaching professor at the University of Washington Information School.For their final assignment, students were asked to imagine a library and its services 10 years in the future.“What most impressed me was both the variet