Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation

Features:

• 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
• Interrogates how ready information professionals are for emergent technological and social change across the globe

Table Of Contents:

1. Future directions in digital information: Scenarios and themes

Part One – Strategy and Design

2. Current research information systems and institutional repositories: From data ingestion to convergence and merger

3. Effective strategies for information literacy education: Combatting 'fake news' and empowering critical thinking

4. Designing library-based research data management services from bottom-up

Part Two – Who are the users?

5. The power of accessible knowledge: Universities, suppliers, and transparency in the information age

6. Who is the online public library user?

7. Digital culture: The dynamics of incorporation

8. Information behaviour in an online university

Part Three – Where formal meets informal

9. Mobile technology and educational games in HE

10. The evolving role of library collections in the broader information ecosystem

11. Social media as a professional development tool for academic librarians

Part Four – Applications and delivery

12. Closing the digital skills gap: Working with business to address local labour market policy
13a. 'It’s all online!' Creating digital study resources for orchestral musicians
13b. Library acquisition, delivery, and discovery for a creative university
13c. Digital transformation trends in education

14. Transforming reference work into teaching: From a librarian to an information literacy-oriented university professor

Part Five – New Paradigms

15. Envisioning Education

4. 0—A scenario planning approach to predicting the future

16. Data-driven modelling of public library infrastructure and usage in the United Kingdom

17. How can the specific skills of the librarian in a digital context be used in the future?

18. The user as a data source: The advance of surveillance capitalism

19. Future directions: Emergent process; constant invention; sum total