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Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries?

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Title:

Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries?

Author(s):

Susan Lafferty, Jenny Edwards

Journal:

Library Management

Year:

2004

Volume:

25

Issue:

6/7

Page:

252 - 258


ISSN:

0143-5124


DOI:

10.1108/01435120410699636

Publisher:

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Abstract:

Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of the industries in which they operate. This paper demonstrates the relevance of the theory of disruptive technologies to academic libraries, higher education and the academic publishing industry. The way universities are organised and how they operate could change radically; scholarly communication could be transformed, placing academic publishers at risk; academic libraries may become irrelevant as new business models emerge. There are strategies that these organisations might adopt to limit the effect of such technologies and/or preferably transform them into sustaining technologies.

Keywords:

Higher education, Innovation, Obsolescence, Publishing, University libraries


Article Type:

Research paper


Article URL:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/01435120410699636

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