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Informationen zum Autor David Baker has published widely in the field of Library and Information Studies, with 19 monographs and over 100 articles to his credit. He has spoken worldwide at numerous conferences and led workshops and seminars. His other key professional interest and expertise has been in the field of human resources, where he has also been active in major national projects. He has held senior positions at several institutions, including as Principal and Chief Executive of Plymouth Marjon University, and Emeritus Professor of Strategic Information Management. He has also been Deputy Chair of the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc). Until recently he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Universities of Northampton and South Wales. He is Chair of the Board of the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. He is a leader in the field of library and information science. Wendy Evans is the Head of Library at the University of St. Mark and St John, UK. She has published and lectured in the field of electronic journal and database usage, access versus ownership of journals, and has already co-edited and co-authored four books with David Baker. The book aims to be a summary and a summation of the key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time. It explores the impact of developing technologies on the information world. The emphasis is on the key current topics as well as future developments; an international perspective is taken throughout. The publication is based on a dynamic set of contents that respond to and anticipate what is happening and may well happen in the field of digital information.
List of contents
- Stephen Akintunde - People's technology: where is the line?
- Chris Batt - Strategic futures for digital information services
- Caroline Brazier - Great librarian? Good libraries? Digital collection development and what it means for our great research collections
- Geoff Browell - From linked open data to linked open knowledge
- Diana Chan & Edward Spodick - Virtual libraries
- Neil Jacobs - Research information management
- Carl Gustav Johannsen - From clients to participants - how information technology impacts relationships between professionals and users
- Tibor Koltay - Digital research data - where are we now?
- Bruce Massis - Strategic futures: partnering for student success
- Katarina Michnik - Swedish local politicians' views on public library digital services
- Angharad Roberts - Conceptualising the library collection for the digital world
- Charlie Smith - Presence, permeability and playfulness - future library architecture in the digital era
- Daniella Smith - Thriving in the digital age: conquests, challenges and thoughts on school libraries
- Conor Smyth - 'Where' matters: keeping pace with geo-ubiquity in a digital world
- Lars Svensson - Semantic web/linked data technologies in libraries
- John Van de Pas, G.J van Bussel and M Veenstra - Digital data and the city: an exploration of the buildings of a Smart City Architecture
- Evgenia Vasilakaki - Knowing your users, discovering your library: an overview of the characteristics of user generations
