{"product_id":"future-directions-in-digital-information-predictions-practice-participation-paperback-9780128221440","title":"Future Directions in Digital Information; Predictions, Practice, Participation (Paperback) 9780128221440","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFuture Directions in Digital Information\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePredictions, Practice, Participation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePresents global coverage of contemporary challenges facing digital information professionals, including the impact of developing technologies and emerging future challenges\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Baker (Edited by), Lucy Ellis (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780128221440, Elsevier Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 29 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e420 pages, 40 illustrations (5 in full color)\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.1 x 2.7 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What are some of the future directions for digital information, based on current practices, policies, and partnerships? This book provides some reasonable assumptions and details from thirty-four library leaders from around the world…..The multinational approach to this book is its primary advan tage, since it allows glimpses into the wider viewpoints and challenges of libraries and information organizations around the world on these topics. I highly recommend this book for librarians involved in digital activities and planning in higher education.\" \u003cb\u003e--Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a valuable compilation that conveys a diversity of approaches to meet organisational goals, make advances for user groups and help with optimising quality digital information resources, along with introducing concepts such as surveillance capitalism. As a snapshot in time, the book contains some valuable accounts and references to a period during which many of us have rapidly shifted our practice and participation with a focus on digital content.\" --\u003cb\u003eJournal of the Australian Library and Information Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuture Directions in Digital Information\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Future directions in digital information: Scenarios and themes  \u003cb\u003ePart One – Strategy and Design \u003c\/b\u003e2. 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two – Who are the users? \u003c\/b\u003e5. 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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three – Where formal meets informal\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 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.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eTransforming reference work into teaching: From a librarian to an information literacy-oriented university professor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five – New Paradigms \u003c\/b\u003e15. 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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: Delphi questions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Library \u0026amp; information sciences [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Library \u0026amp; information sciences\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Library%20\u0026amp;%20information%20sciences%20%5BGL%5D%22\"\u003eGL\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Chandos Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46648313741592,"sku":"9780128221440","price":56.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780128221440.jpg?v=1694090555","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/future-directions-in-digital-information-predictions-practice-participation-paperback-9780128221440","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}