Future Directions in Digital Information - Predictions, Practice, Participation (Paperback)

The 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. Future Directions in 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 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.

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Chandos Digital Information Review
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	David Baker • Lucy Ellis
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-822144-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General
LSN:	0-12-822144-5
Barcode:	9780128221440

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