Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age

The rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic information present new challenges for librarians who must acquire, store, organize, preserve, and disseminate this information to their users. How can you locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of your users? Integrate those resources into the infrastructure of your institutions? Manage the necessary technology and anticipate future trends? The authors discuss both the "why" and the "how" in this meticulous and completely practical examination of the strategic issues facing libraries and other information organizations in the coming decade. These issues include: reasons for digitization; developing collections in the digital world; economic implications of digital collections; structures and services; digital perservation; the changing profession of librarianship; and digital futures. Explore the themes, concepts, and critical issues facing every librarian in this thoughtful and thorough discussion.Marilyn Deegan is the author of 'Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information Age' with ISBN 9781555704377 and ISBN 1555704379.