Full Description
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.
Contents
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
