Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age - Hardcover

Deegan, Marilyn; Tanner, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1856044114 ISBN 13: 9781856044110

Publisher: Facet Pub

Synopsis

Libraries have been traditionally associated with managing physical resources, however with the rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic communication media, information gathering, storage and transmission have presented fresh challenges to those responsible for preserving the cultural memory of society. This book examines the strategic issues involved in realizing a digital future for libraries in the information age. It looks at how librarians and information professionals can locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of their users, integrate these resources into the infrastructure of their institutions, manage the necessary technology and anticipate future trends in the digital age. Topics covered the effect of information and communications in the digital world upon libraries and information organizations the role of the library and the librarian in the digital age economic factors, cultural resource management, technology impact, and knowledge management in the digital library environment preservation of material culture through digitization and preservation of digital objects case studies demonstrating the digital information impact upon national, academic, public and transnational organizations worldwide.Readership : An indispensable guide for all information professionals - including librarians, library and information managers and archivists - wanting to keep abreast of developments in communications technologies, manage change in the library environment, and implement new modes and methods of resource management. It will also be of interest to students on library and information studies courses.

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About the Author

Marilyn Deegan PhD FRSA is Digital Resources Director of the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University, and has been instrumental in the establishment of the Oxford Digital Library. Formerly Manager for Computing in the Arts at Oxford University, she was also Professor of Electronic Library Research at De Montfort University. She is Editor of Literary and Linguistic Computing, the Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, published by Oxford University Press, and Co-Director of the Office for Humanities Communication based at King's College London. Simon Tanner BA(Hons) ALA is Senior Consultant at the Higher Education Digitisation Service at the University of Hertfordshire. Formerly Head of Library Services at Rolls-Royce and Associates, he has held information and IT posts at IBM and the Pilkington Library, Loughborough University. His consultancy activities have centred upon digitization, project management and digital library development for clients such as the British Library, the Royal Academy of Arts and Denmark's National Electronic Research Library. He also advises a number of European initiatives and the New Opportunities Fund digitization programme.

Review

'A fascinating and absorbing book, by two authors who know their subject well.' INTERNET RESOURCES NEWSLETTER

Edition details

• Publisher: Facet Pub
• ISBN 10: 1856044114
• ISBN 13: 9781856044110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English