The Future of Academic Libraries in the Digital Age

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Abstract

Digital information is a constantly developing field. The first title in the Chandos Digital Information Review series, Trends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age, summarises and presents key themes, advances and trends in all aspects of digital information today, exploring the impact of developing technologies on the information world. This book emphasises important contemporary topics and future developments from a global perspective. Dynamic contents by leaders in the field respond to what is happening in the field of digital information literacy, and anticipate future developments. Topics include: the future of digital information provision; Enquire; cloud computing; building an information landscape; e-books and journals in a changing digital landscape; discovering resources; citizens and digital information; data-management; community usage patterns of scientific information; software citations; the future of data curation; JISC; Skills Portal; the future information professional; university library and information services; academic libraries and their future; and impediments to new library futures.

Inside this book, LiLi LI's book chapter is available at Chapter 16, which is titled "The future of academic libraries in the digital age", from Page 253 to Page 268.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationTrends, Discovery, and People in the Digital Age
StatePublished - Mar 12 2013

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Library and Information Science
  • Scholarly Publishing

Keywords

  • Academic libraries
  • Digital age

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