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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#6A6A6A;background:white'>What is on the five-year horizon for academic and research libraries? The<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><em><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'>NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Library Edition </span></em>examines key trends, significant challenges, and important developments in technology for their impact on academic and research libraries worldwide. This publication was produced by the NMC in collaboration with University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hannover, and ETH-Bibliothek Zurich. To create the report, an international body of experts from library management, education, technology, and other fields was convened as a panel. Over the course of three months, the<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"'><a href="http://library.wiki.nmc.org/Panel+of+Experts" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0099BF;background:white'>2015 NMC Horizon Project Library Expert Panel</span></a></span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#6A6A6A;background:white'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#6A6A6A;background:white'>came to a consensus about the topics that would appear here. 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