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exploited and analyzed by humans, machines, and algorithms; libraries would no longer be geared
primarily to direct readers but instead to content contributors, community curators, text-mining
programs, machine-learning algorithms, and visualization tools; libraries would operate as an open
digital platform, available for all manner of research and development projects emanating from
within and beyond the campus.
The NLM envisioned its functions in open science (see Figure 2, Usage license in public
domains)(Huerta, 2017). It considered that its role and contributions should concentrate on
new knowledge, services and mechanisms brought by biomedical science, information science,
informatics and data science.

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In its 2015-2023 strategic plan—Living Knowledge, the British Library(2015) indicated that “we
are only just beginning to appreciate the distinctive and dynamic roles that libraries have to play
in this revolution: as curators of vast and rapidly growing collections of digitised historic items
and born-digital content; as creators and analysers of new datasets; as experts in setting standards,
improving data and enabling links in a complex digital landscape; and as centres for cross-
disciplinary working and business innovation”.

3.2 Repositioning the library

Like the aforementioned institutions, we need to think about: ① What is the library? It is
far beyond a building, collection or a batch of materials. It is a service mechanism based on