Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age

Informationen zum Autor David Baker is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Information Management at University College Plymouth St Mark and St John! UK! where he was previously Principle. He is Deputy Chair of JISC! the Joint Information Systems Committee. David has published widely in the field of Library and Information Studies! with fourteen monographs and some 100 articles to his credit. He has spoken at numerous conferences! led workshops and seminars and has undertaken consultancy work in most countries in the European Union! along with work in Ethiopia! Kuwait! Nigeria and Sudan. He has published the following books with Chandos Publishing: Strategic Change Management in Public Sector Organisations! he co-produced (with Wendy Evans) Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective and Libraries and Society: Role! responsibility and future in an age of change! and (with Bernadette Casey) Eve on Top: Women's experience of success in the public sector. Wendy Evans is Head of Library at UCP Marjon. She has a keen interest in the Internet and electronic resources and! in particular! access to journals and databases. Wendy also has an expertise in data protection and freedom of information! and has published! lectured and researched electronic journal and database usage and access versus ownership of journals. She has co-authored and edited Digital Library Economics: An academic perspective and Libraries and Society: Role! responsibility and future in an age of change and is currently working on A Handbook of Digital Library Economics! also to be published by Chandos. Contributors include: David Baker; Wendy Evans; Anthony Chow; Joanne John; John Dolan; David Vogt; Richard Otlet; Lorraine Estelle; Rachel Bruce; Andrew McGregor; Ian Everall; Terence Fernando! Jonathan Tedds; Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri; Joachim Schopfel; Neil Chue Hong; Aldalin Lyngdoh; Abby Clobridge; Simon Whittemore; Vivien Sieber; Susan Myburgh; Caroline Williams; Lili Li; and Steve O'Connor. Klappentext Digital Information Review: Trends! discovery! and people in the Digital Age summarises and presents key themes! advances and trends in all aspects of digital information today! exploring the impact of developing technologies on the information world. Zusammenfassung Digital Information Review: Trends! discovery! and people in the Digital Age summarises and presents key themes! advances and trends in all aspects of digital information today! exploring the impact of developing technologies on the information world. Inhaltsverzeichnis The future of digital information provision; The usability of digital information environments: Planning! design and assessment; The history of Enquire: The story of UK public libraries on the Web; Children of the cloud; Surviving or thriving? Building an information landscape; The effect the changing digital landscape is having on the dissemination of e-books and e-journals in a world dominated by Google; Resource discovery; Using the Mirrorworld to plan and build better futures for our citizens; Beyond the Google generation: Towards community-specific usage patterns of scientific information; What we leave behind: The future of data curation; The digital curation toolkit: Strategies for adding value to work-related social systems; The JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme; Skills Portal: A study skills and information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources; Free at last; Flexible and agile university library and information services: Skills and management methodologies; Flexible and agile university library and information services: Skills and management methodologies; The future of academic libraries in the digital age; Roadblocks! potholes and obstructions on the path to new library futures. ...

List of contents

1. The future of digital information provision
2. The usability of digital information environments: planning, design and assessment
3. The history of Enquire: the story of UK public libraries on the Web
4. Children of the cloud
5. Surviving or thriving? Building an information landscape
6. The effect the changing digital landscape is having on the dissemination of e-books and e-journals in a world dominated by Google
7. Resource discovery
8. Using the Mirrorworld to plan and build better futures for our citizens
9. Beyond the Google generation: towards community-specific usage patterns of scientific information
10. What we leave behind: the future of data curation
11. The digital curation toolkit: strategies for adding value to work-related social systems
12. The JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme
13. Skills Portal: a study skills and information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources
14. Free at last
15. Flexible and agile university library and information services: skills and management methodologies
16. The future of academic libraries in the digital age
17. Roadblocks, potholes and obstructions on the path to new library futures

Report

"...provides an engaging overview of some of the key themes and trends in digital information.will be of primary interest to library and information science students and information professionals working in academic or university settings." --Information and Culture,November 2014
"The reviewer was most engaged by ideas around the impact the digital world has had on the disintermediation of information and understanding that the role of the librarian in this space..." --Australian Library Journal,Vol 63, No 4

Product details

• Authors: Wendy (Head of Library Evans
• Assisted by: David Baker (Editor), David (Independent Consultant Baker (Editor), Wendy Evans (Editor), Wendy (Head of Library Evans (Editor)
• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2013
• EAN: 9781843347231
• ISBN: 978-1-84334-723-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Chandos Digital Information Review
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system