United in diversity - The future of the public mission: panel report

Apart from the question how long libraries will still give access to paper books, and apart from the question whether we are talking about the future of institutions or functions, the ‘United in diversity panel’ was a panel on a mission: to discover what a diverse range of institutions can learn from the others with regard to the future of their public task. For libraries, archives and the media have a lot in common with regard to their functions and could therefore cooperate in finding a way forward. The panel initiated a dialogue between speakers from scholarly and professional backgrounds, who reflected on the position of public service broadcasting, libraries, the press and audiovisual archives in the networked public information environment: how should the institutions adapt?