
Future Directions in Digital Information
Predictions, Practice, Participation
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Those involved in strategy and blue skies thinking, e.g. directors of libraries and information services, academics and researchers in information science
Table of Contents
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-upPart 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 universityPart 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 librariansPart 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 professorPart 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 totalAppendix: Delphi questions
Product details
- No. of pages: 420
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2020
- Published: October 24, 2020
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780128221778
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128221440
About the Editors
David Baker
Affiliations and Expertise
Lucy Ellis
Affiliations and Expertise
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