Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, transitioning 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 Advances in Information Series, this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to excel among the digital choices and pathways on offer, develop new systems and models, or gain information on trends in the educational and industry contexts that make up the information sphere.
The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a push to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. A group of international contributors was assembled to give their take on how information professionals and scientists are 'doing the future' along five distinct themes: design of new information systems; constructing new knowledge about users; where the formal meets the informal world; delivering practical projects, and finally, emergent 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
- Explores how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe
Industry Reviews
"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." --Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
"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." --Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
