Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation

The last decade has seen significant global changes­ that have impacted library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a mood to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. Doing the Future with Digital Information 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 Advances in Information 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 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 adaptGives insight into how managers can make the best decisions about the future provision of their information servicesEngages key practical issues faced by information professionals such as how best to collect and deploy user data in librariesPresents digital literacy as a global theme, stressing the need to foster literacy in a broad range of contextsInterrogates how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe INDICE: 1. Introduction to Directions in Digital Information Part One - Designing Information Systems 2. Current Research Information Systems and Institutional Repositories: From Data Ingestion to Convergence and Merger 3. Designing Library-based Research Data Management Services from Bottom-Up 4. Library Acquisition, Delivery and Discovery for a Creative University 5. Educational Establishments' Response to Poor Information Literacy among Student Bodies Part Two - Who are the Users? Constructing New Knowledge 6. The Power of Knowledge: Universities, Suppliers and Transparency in the Information Age Meeting the information needs of diverse users 7. Who is the digital public library user? 8. Digital Culture: The Dynamics of Incorporation 9. Digital Transformation Trends in Education 10. The digital behaviour of distance learners Part Three - Where Formal meets Informal 11. Mobile technology and educational games in HE 12. Social Media as a Professional Development Tool for Academic Librarians 13. Procurement and probity practices in digital information 14. The evolving role of academic library collections in the broader information ecosystem Part Four - Delivering Practical Projects 15. Transforming the role of librarian for graduate students: Information Literacy experiences in two humanities and education programs 16. It's All Online!: Creating digital study resources for orchestral musicians - and getting musicians to use them Part Five - Emerging New Paradigms 17. Towards Education 4.0 - a scenario planning approach to predicting the future 18. The User as a Data Source 19. Data-driven modelling of public library infrastructure and usage in the United Kingdom 20. What are the (professional) librarian's special competencies in a digital educational context in 2020 and what can they be used for in a future perspective? Conclusions on Future Directions in Digital Information

• ISBN: 978-0-12-822144-0
• Editorial: Chandos Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 380
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés