Today I worked on the new research strategy for our research field digital libraries at HTW Chur. This will be the future main focus of our activities in research in library science and also in HTW’s services for libraries. We are still discussing the details, but I am convinced that it will be a great step forward. Some of our topics are innovation in libraries, new ways of production and distribution of eBooks and their impact on libraries, semantic Web and linked open data, mobile usage of library services and much more. I’ve got the idea to develop an innovation check – a kind of maturity check for the degree of adapting innovative tools, methods and technologies in libraries. And I didn’t forget our project technology radar…
I am also looking forward to cooperate with colleagues with different background and special know-how. And I hope that we will soon be able to publish some results.
Rudolf Mumenthaler 