Digital Information and Knowledge Management

New Opportunities for Research Libraries

Sul H. Lee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780789035653
• eBook ISBN: 9781136457715
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Information Technology
• Index: Computer Science

Digital Information and Knowledge Management examines how academic librarians can use knowledge management to provide an increasing amount of electronic information to an expanding user base. Several of the country's leading library administrators analyze these vital issues from the perspectives of both information providers and library users, exploring the challenges of selecting and managing electronic information and resources, making the most of knowledge management, and improving digital access to their users.

Electronic resources have given the library new roles to fill and created a demand for librarians skilled in the acquisition, retrieval, and dissemination of digital information. Libraries and librarians have met the challenges presented by digital resources and have moved from building collections of print materials into the growing field of knowledge management. Digital Information and Knowledge Management offers insights into how librarians are making that transition to enhance the resources and services they can offer library users.

Topics examined in Digital Information and Knowledge Management include:

• cooperative collection development
• the balance of print and electronic resources
• the evolution of digital resources in libraries
• the concept of knowledge management
• changes in research libraries
• knowledge management in academic libraries
• factors that influence the selection of electronic resources
• disseminating information about scholarly collections
• the need for a standardized method of information presentation
• successful approaches to managing digital information
• the digitalization of collections and historical materials
• how to maintain the connections between academic disciplines and libraries
• and much more!

Digital Information and Knowledge Management is an essential professional resource for senior- and mid-level library administrators, and for acquisitions, reference, and collections librarians.

Index

Adoption of Innovation in Higher Education (Getz), 66–67

Amazon.com, 19–20

American Memory project (LOC), 86–87

Application, of scholarship, 48

Avantis pharmaceutical, 32–33

Baker, Nicholson, 45

Baker, Shirley K., 2, 65–74

Big science, 14

California, state library shutdown, 30–31

Cal Tech, innovation study participation, 69

Carbon-silicon transition, 10

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 46–47, 49–60

Chicago, Encyclopedia of (Newberry Library), 85–86

“Chorus from the Rock” (Eliot), 82

Citizen participation, 90–91

Collaboration, 22

Commercial sector, as model, 19–20

Complexity, 3–26

conclusion, 23–24

historical progression of, 3–10

implications for research libraries, 16–23

learning materials and, 19–20

public policies and, 13

societal trends and, 11–13

university context and, 13–16

Computers

evolution of, 76

vs. word processors, 76–77

CONTENTdm, 51, 56, 57–58

Context, importance of, 35

Copyright issues, 13, 80, 82–83

Council on Library and Information Resources, 2, 89–97

Course management systems, 19–20

Cullen, Charles T., 2, 75–88

Cultural issues, 2

approaches to knowledge, 37–38

as pervasive, 34–35

societal trends, 11–13

Data defined, 81

Davenport, Nancy, 2, 89–97

Digital content management systems, 56

Digitalization

formatting issues, 54

Google project, 79–80

scholarly work and, 41–64

Digital libraries defined, 43–45

Digital Library Federation, 43

Digital purgatory, 75–88

Dillon, Dennis, 2, 27–40

Discovery, in sch...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• It’s Not Your Parents’ Library Anymore: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Webs of Complexity
• Google, Libraries, and Knowledge Management: From the Navajo to the National Security Agency
• The Scholarly Work of Digital Libraries
• New Opportunities for Research Libraries in Digital Information and Knowledge Management: Challenges for the Mid-Sized Research Library
• Is There a Digital Purgatory?
• Digital Libraries and Librarians of the 21st Century
• Toward a Topography of Library Collections
• Index