Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

From virtual reality to state–of–the–art makerspaces, higher education institutions are bringing digital innovation to a traditional academic hub on campus.

Despite the innovations happening on college campuses, university libraries continue to be an academic center for students. 

In order to keep up with the continuous marriage of education and technology, universities are implementing new digital solutions in their libraries.

Spreading digital fluency is now a core responsibility of academic libraries, and Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) are poised to amplify the utility and reach of library services like never before. These are just two of the revelations part of the New Media Consortium’s (NMC) University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), ETH Library, and the Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Annual Horizon Report: 2017 Library Edition.