Digital futures : strategies for the information age /

Digital futures : strategies for the information age / Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner.

The rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic communication media have presented fresh challenges to those responsible for preserving the cultural memory of society. This book examines the strategic issues involved.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deegan, Marilyn.
Other Authors: Tanner, Simon.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Neal-Schuman Publishers ; Library Association Pub., [2002]
Series:Digital futures series.
Subjects:
Digital libraries.
Libraries > Special collections > Electronic information resources.
Digital preservation.
Table of Contents:
  • Digital futures in current contexts
  • Information revolution in a wired world
  • Information explosion
  • The nature of digital data
  • The storage and transmission of digital data
  • Developments in digital data creation
  • Printing and publishing
  • Changes in libraries
  • Digital libraries
  • Automating information retrieval
  • The world wide web
  • Why the world wide web is not a digital library
  • Changing names for managing content
  • Why digitize?
  • Practical and strategic issues in the digitization of library collections
  • The benefits of digitization
  • Formats of materials for digitization
  • What does a digitization project involve?
  • The digital lifecycle approach
  • Running a digitization project
  • Digitization projects and the management of risk
  • Some example projects
  • Digital library programmes
  • Developing collections in the digital world
  • Why digital?
  • Advantages of digital data
  • The new universal library: the distributed hybrid library
  • Collection development: just in case, or just in time?
  • Digital content and its supply
  • Electronic serials
  • Reference works
  • E-books
  • The economic factors
  • The cost and benefit relationship of digital content
  • Breaking even in the digital library
  • Opportunity costs
  • Optimizing spending in digital content creation
  • Identifying cost factors
  • Purchasing digital content
  • The cost of managing digital content
  • Reaping the rewards
  • Resource discovery, description and use
  • The world wide web: structure
  • The world wide web: content.

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