Future Directions in Digital Information - Predictions, Practice, Participation

The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted the library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Future Directions in Digital Information presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, portraying a sense of transition from old to new. This title is a comprehensive, international take on key themes, advances, and trends in digital information, including the impact of developing technologies. The latest volume in the 'Chandos Digital Information Review Series', this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to keep pace with, and excel among, the digital choices and pathways on offer, to develop new systems and models, and gain information on trends in the educational and industry contexts that make up the information sphere. A group of international contributors has been assembled to give their view on how information professionals and scientists are creating the future along five distinct themes: Strategy and Design; Who are the Users?; Where Formal meets Informal; Applications and Delivery; and finally, New Paradigms. The multinational perspectives contained in this volume acquaint readers with problems, approaches, and achievements in digital information from around the world, with equity of information access emerging as a key challenge.

List of contents

1. Future directions in digital information: Scenarios and themes

Part One - Strategy and Design
2. Current research information systems and institutional repositories: From data ingestion to convergence and merger
3. Effective strategies for information literacy education: Combatting 'fake news' and empowering critical thinking
4. Designing library-based research data management services from bottom-up
Part Two - Who are the users?
5. The power of accessible knowledge: Universities, suppliers, and transparency in the information age
6. Who is the online public library user?
7. Digital culture: The dynamics of incorporation
8. Information behaviour in an online university
Part Three - Where formal meets informal
9. Mobile technology and educational games in HE
10. The evolving role of library collections in the broader information ecosystem
11. Social media as a professional development tool for academic librarians?
Part Four - Applications and delivery
12. Closing the digital skills gap: Working with business to address local labour market policy
13a. 'It's all online!' Creating digital study resources for orchestral musicians
13b. Library acquisition, delivery, and discovery for a creative university
13c. Digital transformation trends in education
14. Transforming reference work into teaching: From a librarian to an information literacy-oriented university professor
Part Five - New Paradigms
15. Envisioning Education 4.0-A scenario planning approach to predicting the future
16. Data-driven modelling of public library infrastructure and usage in the United Kingdom
17. How can the specific skills of the librarian in a digital context be used in the future?
18. The user as a data source: The advance of surveillance capitalism
19. Future directions: Emergent process; constant invention; sum total
Appendix: Delphi questions

About the author

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.Lucy Ellis is a consultant and research associate within higher education. Her background is as a lecturer, research scientist and project development consultant. With Professor David Baker she is Editor-in-Chief for the Elsevier Major Reference Work ‘Encyclopaedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science’ and Chandos-Elsevier Series Editor for ‘Digital Information Review’ and the ‘Advances in Information’ series. Recent books in this series include Libraries, Digital Information and COVID: Practical Applications and Approaches to Challenge and Change and Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice and Participation. She is a reviewer for Information and Learning Sciences (Wiley), Journal of British Institute of Organ Studies, British Academy grants scheme and the publisher Palgrave. Following a PhD in Experimental Phonetics she worked as a Senior Lecturer and programme leader at Plymouth Marjon University and as a project development consultant. She holds an Honorary Research Fellowship with the College of Humanities at Exeter University.

Report

"What are some of the future directions for digital information, based on current practices, policies, and partnerships? This book provides some reasonable assumptions and details from thirty-four library leaders from around the world...The multinational approach to this book is its primary advan tage, since it allows glimpses into the wider viewpoints and challenges of libraries and information organizations around the world on these topics. I highly recommend this book for librarians involved in digital activities and planning in higher education." --Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
"This is a valuable compilation that conveys a diversity of approaches to meet organisational goals, make advances for user groups and help with optimising quality digital information resources, along with introducing concepts such as surveillance capitalism. As a snapshot in time, the book contains some valuable accounts and references to a period during which many of us have rapidly shifted our practice and participation with a focus on digital content." --Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

Product details

• Assisted by: David Baker (Editor), Baker David (Editor), Lucy Ellis (Editor), Ellis Lucy (Editor)
• Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2020
• EAN: 9780128221440
• ISBN: 978-0-12-822144-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 19 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Chandos Digital Information Review
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library, archive and information management, Library & Information Sciences