Future Directions in Digital Information

1. Future directions in digital information: Scenarios and themes

Part One – Strategy and Design
2. Current research information systems and institutional repositories: From data ingestion to convergence and merger
3. Effective strategies for information literacy education: Combatting 'fake news' and empowering critical thinking
4. Designing library-based research data management services from bottom-up

Part Two – Who are the users?
5. The power of accessible knowledge: Universities, suppliers, and transparency in the information age
6. Who is the online public library user?
7. Digital culture: The dynamics of incorporation
8. Information behaviour in an online university

Part Three – Where formal meets informal
9. Mobile technology and educational games in HE
10. The evolving role of library collections in the broader information ecosystem
11. Social media as a professional development tool for academic librarians　

Part Four – Applications and delivery
12. Closing the digital skills gap: Working with business to address local labour market policy
13a. 'It’s all online!' Creating digital study resources for orchestral musicians
13b. Library acquisition, delivery, and discovery for a creative university
13c. Digital transformation trends in education
14. Transforming reference work into teaching: From a librarian to an information literacy-oriented university professor

Part Five – New Paradigms
15. Envisioning Education 4.0—A scenario planning approach to predicting the future
16. Data-driven modelling of public library infrastructure and usage in the United Kingdom
17. How can the specific skills of the librarian in a digital context be used in the future?
18. The user as a data source: The advance of surveillance capitalism
19. Future directions: Emergent process; constant invention; sum total

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

Those involved in strategy and blue skies thinking, e.g. directors of libraries and information services, academics and researchers in information science