Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age - Softcover

Deegan, Marilyn; Tanner, Simon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555704379 ISBN 13: 9781555704377

Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub, 2002

Synopsis

The rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic information present new challenges for librarians who must acquire, store, organize, preserve, and disseminate this information to their users. How can you locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of your users, integrate those resources into the infrastructure of your institutions, manage the necessary technology, and anticipate future trends? Deegan and Tanner suggest both the why and the how in this meticulous and completely practical examination of the strategic issues we face in a digital future. Chapters like: Digital Futures in Current Contexts; Why Digitize?; Developing Collections in the Digital World; Economic Implications of Digital Collections; Resource Recovery; Structures and Services: Mechanisms for End-User Access; Digital Preservation; The Changing Profession of Librarianship; and Digital Futures encapsulate the themes, concepts, and critical issues facing every librarian.

About this title

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:

"If you are involved with digital information then you should buy your own copy of this book, and all libraries serving information managers need one or more copies."

About this edition

• Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1555704379
• ISBN 13: 9781555704377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276