Digital convergence : libraries of the future / Rae Earnshaw and John Vince (Eds).

Other author Earnshaw, Rae A., 1944-
Other author Vince, John (John A.)
Other author Carr, Reg, 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Springer, ©2008.
Descriptionxxxii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents From "boutique" to mass digitalization : the Google Library Project at Oxford / Ronald Milne -- Digital services in academic libraries : the Internet is setting benchmarks / Norbert Lossau -- Early years of the United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET) / Mike Wells -- World-class universities need world-class libraries and information resources : but how can they be provided? / Brian K. Follett -- International dimensions of digital science and scholarship : aspirations of the British Library in serving the international scientific and scholarly communities / Lynne Brindley -- CURL-- research libraries in the British Isles / Peter Fox -- For better or worse : change and development in academic libraries, 1970-2006 / Bill Simpson -- Combining the best of both worlds : the hybrid library / David Baker -- Beyond the hybrid library : libraries in a Web 2.0 world / Derek Law -- Libraries and open access : the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions / Stephen Pinfield -- Scholarship and libraries : collectors and collections / Fred Ratcliffe -- When is a librarian not a librarian? / Frederick Friend -- From integration to web archiving / John Tuck -- Not just a box of books : from repository to service innovator / Sarah E. Thomas and Carl A. Kroch -- Learning enhancement through strategic project partnership / Mary Heaney -- Libraries for the 21st century / Les Watson -- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : poor players on the digital curation stage / Chris Rusbridge -- Some key issues in digital preservation / Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner -- From the information age to the intelligence age : exploiting IT and convergence / Rae Earnshaw and John Vince -- Cognitive implications of information spaces : human issues in the design and use of electronic library interfaces / Sherry Chen ... [et al.] -- Mobile media-- from content to user / Antonietta Iacono and Gareth Frith -- Special collections librarianship / Richard Ovenden -- Defending research and scholarship-- United Kingdom libraries and the Terrorism Bill 2005 / Clive D. Field -- Politics, profits and idealism : John Norton, the Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Bodley / John Barnard -- William Drummond of Hawthornden : book collector and benefactor of Edinburgh University Library / John Hall -- de Gaulle and the British / David Dilks -- Great libraries in the service of science / Alan Eyre -- Governance at Harvard University Library / Dudley Fishburn -- Higher education libraries and the quality agenda / John Horton.
General note"Festschrift in honour of Dr Reg Carr" - back cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007933087
ISBN9781846289026 (hbk.)
ISBN1846289025 (hbk.)
ISBN1846289033 (ebook)
ISBN9781846289033 (ebook)

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