Baker / Evans Digital Information Strategies

From Applications and Content to Libraries and People
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-08-100267-4
Verlag: Elsevier Reference Monographs
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Chandos Digital Information Review

Digital Information Strategies: From Applications and Content to Libraries and People provides a summary and summation of key themes, advances, and trends in all aspects of digital information at the present time.

This helpful resource explores the impact of developing technologies on the information world. Written from an international perspective, the book emphasizes key current topics and future developments. The publication is based on a dynamic set of contents that respond to, and anticipate, what is happening-and what may well happen-in the field of digital information.



- Presents a comprehensive overview of the major aspects of contemporary digital information provision
- Serves as a useful reference work for the subject area
- Features input written from an international perspective
- Explores the impact of developing technologies on the information world, emphasizing key, current topics and future developments

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baker, David

Evans, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften EDV Systeme, Internet und elektronische Ressourcen in Bibliotheken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Stephen Akintunde - People's technology: where is the line?
- Chris Batt - Strategic futures for digital information services
- Caroline Brazier - Great librarian? Good libraries? Digital collection development and what it means for our great research collections
- Geoff Browell - From linked open data to linked open knowledge
- Diana Chan & Edward Spodick - Virtual libraries
- Neil Jacobs - Research information management
- Carl Gustav Johannsen - From clients to participants - how information technology impacts relationships between professionals and users
- Tibor Koltay - Digital research data - where are we now?
- Bruce Massis - Strategic futures: partnering for student success
- Katarina Michnik - Swedish local politicians' views on public library digital services
- Angharad Roberts - Conceptualising the library collection for the digital world
- Charlie Smith - Presence, permeability and playfulness - future library architecture in the digital era
- Daniella Smith - Thriving in the digital age: conquests, challenges and thoughts on school libraries
- Conor Smyth - 'Where' matters: keeping pace with geo-ubiquity in a digital world
- Lars Svensson - Semantic web/linked data technologies in libraries
- John Van de Pas, G.J van Bussel and M Veenstra - Digital data and the city: an exploration of the buildings of a Smart City Architecture
- Evgenia Vasilakaki - Knowing your users, discovering your library: an overview of the characteristics of user generations

Über Autor(innen)

Baker, David
Professor David Baker has published widely in the field of Library and Information Studies, with eighteen monographs and over 100 articles to his credit. He has spoken worldwide at numerous conferences, 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.

Evans, Wendy
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.