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Author:   Rae Earnshaw ,  John Vince
Publisher:   Springer London Ltd
Imprint:   Springer London Ltd
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.682kg
ISBN:  

9781849966726

ISBN 10:   1849966729
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   13 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

The Organization and Delivery of Digital Information.- From ‘‘Boutique’’ to Mass Digitization: the Google Library Project at Oxford.- Digital Services in Academic Libraries: the Internet is Setting Benchmarks.- The Early Years of the United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET).- The World Library – Collaboration and Sharing of Information.- World-Class Universities Need World-Class Libraries and Information Resources: But How Can they be Provided?.- The International Dimensions of Digital Science and Scholarship: Aspirations of the British Library in Serving the International Scientific and Scholarly Communities.- CURL – Research Libraries in the British Isles.- Cultural and Strategic Implications of Digital Convergence for Libraries.- For Betteror Worse: Change and Development in Academic Libraries, 1970-2006.- Combining the Best of Both Worlds: the Hybrid Library.- Beyond the Hybrid Library: Libraries in a Web 2.0 World.- Libraries and Open Access: the Implications of Open-Access Publishing and Dissemination for Libraries in Higher Education Institutions.- Shaking the Foundations – Librarianship in Transition.- Scholarship and Libraries: Collectors and Collections.- When is a Librarian not a Librarian?.- New Dimensions of InformationProvision Restructuring, Innovation, and Integration.- From Integration to Web Archiving.- Not Just a Box of Books: From Repository to Service Innovator.- Learning Enhancement through Strategic Project Partnership.- Libraries for the 21st Century.- Preserving the Content – The Physical and the Digital.- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: Poor Players on the Digital Curation Stage.- Some Key Issues in Digital Preservation.- From Information to Knowledge – the Human–Computer Interface.- From the Information Age tothe Intelligence Age: Exploiting IT and Convergence.- Cognitive Implications of InformationSpaces: Human Issues in the Design and Use of Electronic Library Interfaces.- Mobile Media – From Content to User.- Historic Collections and Case Studies.- Special Collections Librarianship.- Defending Research and Scholarship – United Kingdom Libraries and the Terrorism Bill 2005.- Politics, Profits and Idealism: John Norton, the Stationers’ Company and Sir Thomas Bodley.- William Drummond of Hawthornden: Book Collector and Benefactor of Edinburgh University Library.- de Gaulle and the British.- High Level Applications of Contentandits Governance.- Great Libraries in the Service of Science.- Governance at Harvard University Library.- Higher Education Libraries and the Quality Agenda.

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