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Synopsis
Future Directions in Digital Information: Predictions, Practice, Participation presents the latest ideas and approaches to digital information from across the globe, transitioning from old to new. This title is a comprehensive, international take on key themes, advances, and trends in digital information, including the impact of developing technologies. The latest volume in the Chandos Advances in Information Series, this book will help practitioners and thinkers looking to excel among the digital choices and pathways on offer, develop new systems and models, or gain information on trends in the educational and industry contexts that make up the information sphere.
The last decade has seen significant global changes that have impacted library, information, and learning services and sciences. There is now a push to find pragmatic information solutions to pressing global challenges. A group of international contributors was assembled to give their take on how information professionals and scientists are 'doing the future' along five distinct themes: design of new information systems; constructing new knowledge about users; where the formal meets the informal world; delivering practical projects, and finally, emergent new paradigms. The multinational perspectives contained in this volume acquaint readers with problems, approaches, and achievements in digital information from around the world, with equity of information access emerging as a key challenge.