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Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age

  • 1st Edition - February 26, 2013
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Wendy Evans, David Baker
  • Language: English

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises… Read more

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Description

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, 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. This book emphasises important contemporary topics and future developments from a global perspective. Dynamic contents by leaders in the field respond to what is happening in the field of digital information literacy, and anticipate future developments. Topics include: the future of digital information provision; Enquire; cloud computing; building an information landscape; e-books and journals in a changing digital landscape; discovering resources; citizens and digital information; data-management; community usage patterns of scientific information; software citations; the future of data curation; JISC; Skills Portal; the future information professional; university library and information services; academic libraries and their future; and impediments to new library futures.

Key features

  • Covers major aspects of contemporary digital information provision
  • Provides practical advice
  • Structured so that each chapter stands alone while contributing to a coherent overall text

Readership

All those involved in digital information provision, library developments and digital collections and services, including managers, subject specialists, project directors, technical staff, content creators and editors

Table 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

Review quotes

"...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

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 26, 2013
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Wendy Evans

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Head of Library, University of St Mark & St John, UK

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David Baker

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Consultant, Mytholmroyd, UK

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