What is the IFLA Trend Report?

In the global information environment, time moves quickly and there's an abundance of commentators trying to keep up. With each new technological development, a new report emerges assessing its impact on different sectors of society. The IFLA Trend Report takes a broader approach and identifies five high level trends shaping the information society, spanning access to education, privacy, civic engagement and transformation. Its findings reflect a year’s consultation with a range of experts and stakeholders from different disciplines to map broader societal changes occurring, or likely to occur in the information environment.

The IFLA Trend Report is more than a single document – it is a selection of resources to help you understand where libraries fit into a changing society. Before you go any further, make sure you:

• Read Riding the Waves or Caught in the Tide? Insights from the IFLA Trend Report

• Find out more about the context and vision behind the Trend Report

• Learn How to Use the Trend Report and navigate the different resources on offer

• See what topics and questions people are discussing on the Discussion Forum

• Discover the Trends

  Our information environment is constantly changing. How will we access, use and benefit from information in an increasingly hyper-connected world? The IFLA Trend Report identifies five top level trends which will play a key role in shaping our future information ecosystem:

• TREND 1 New Technologies will both expand and limit who has access to information.

• TREND 2 Online Education will democratise and disrupt global learning.

• TREND 3 The boundaries of privacy and data protection will be redefined..

• TREND 4 Hyper-connected societies will listen to and empower new voices and groups.

• TREND 5 The global information environment will be transformed by new technologies.

Read More on IFLA website