Future Directions in Digital Information
Predictions, Practice, Participation
- 420 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.- Presents a global perspective on how information science and services are changing and how they can best adapt- Gives insight into how managers can make the best decisions about the future provision of their information services- Engages key practical issues faced by information professionals such as how best to collect and deploy user data in libraries- Presents digital literacy as a global theme, stressing the need to foster literacy in a broad range of contexts- Interrogates how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of figures and tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Author Biographies
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1: Future directions in digital information: Scenarios and themes
- Part One: Strategy and design
- Part Two: Who are the users?
- Part Three: Where formal meets informal
- Part Four: Applications and delivery
- Part Five: New paradigms
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Delphi questions
- Index