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.- 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
Table of Contents
1. The future of digital information provision2. The usability of digital information environments: planning, design and assessment3. The history of Enquire: the story of UK public libraries on the Web4. Children of the cloud5. Surviving or thriving? Building an information landscape6. The effect the changing digital landscape is having on the dissemination of e-books and e-journals in a world dominated by Google7. Resource discovery8. Using the Mirrorworld to plan and build better futures for our citizens9. Beyond the Google generation: towards community-specific usage patterns of scientific information10. What we leave behind: the future of data curation11. The digital curation toolkit: strategies for adding value to work-related social systems12. The JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme13. Skills Portal: a study skills and information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources14. Free at last15. Flexible and agile university library and information services: skills and management methodologies16. The future of academic libraries in the digital age17. Roadblocks, potholes and obstructions on the path to new library futures
