Abstract: In an era of exponential development, library and information services have encountered a lot of big challenges. It will be disrupted by a radical change conducted by information technologies if our librarians and information specialists cannot transformed to be the disruptor. The paper analyzed several trends research reports issued by Gartner, Accenture, McKinsey, IDC, etc. and summed up with five general trends. According to a related technology list extracted from document analysis and expert interview(introduced in another paper), a big picture of the next decade for the library and information career has been drawn and discussed. Finally it concluded with six trends and policy recommendations for the Chinese library and information institutions.

Key words: Information technology, Trend analysis, Library IT application