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| List of figures and tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| About the contributors | |
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| The future of digital information provision | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The future of the library and the library of the future | |
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| Discovery | |
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| Open access, intellectual property rights, interoperability | |
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| Sustainability | |
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| Users, resources, intermediation | |
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| Information literacy | |
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| Whither librarianship? | |
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| What next? | |
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| End note | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The usability of digital information environments: planning, design and assessment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| User-centred design; usability and digital environments | |
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| Information-seeking behaviour: need, information, access | |
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| What is information-seeking behaviour? | |
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| Information-seeking and information-provision match | |
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| Heuristics and design guidelines | |
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| Information-seeking trends | |
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| Accessibility | |
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| Usability evaluation: building sites high in utility and ease of use | |
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| Designing highly usable future pathways: an art and a science | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The history of Enquire: the story of UK public libraries on the Web | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History | |
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| Enquire: how it works | |
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| Enquire: value for money | |
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| Additional local services available when participating in Enquire | |
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| Answers around the clock from around the globe | |
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| Service management | |
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| The future | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Children of the cloud | |
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| The Web's just not that into you… | |
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| Wunderkind | |
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| Brain apps | |
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| Ignorance is bliss | |
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| A cloud of forgotten dreams | |
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| You are what you stream | |
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| Childhood's End | |
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| Notes | |
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| Surviving or thriving? Building an information landscape | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Our digital information environment: changes and challenges | |
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| Disintermediation | |
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| Hypertext | |
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| Increasing fluidity | |
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| Converging information models | |
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| Power and control | |
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| Open or closed? | |
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| Information overload | |
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| The wider information environment | |
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| Human agency | |
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| Information | |
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| Our information landscape | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The effect the changing digital landscape is having on the dissemination of e-books and e-journals in a world dominated by Google | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New opportunities | |
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| The scholarly journal | |
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| E-books | |
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| Mobile devices | |
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| Scholarly monographs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Resource discovery | |
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| The resource discovery context for higher education | |
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| The Resource Discovery Taskforce | |
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| The future | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Using the Mirrorworld to plan and build better futures for our citizens | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Developing the Mirrorworld - first steps | |
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| Black Country case study | |
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| Salford Mirrorworld | |
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| Mirrorworld platform technology overview | |
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| Future developments | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes | |
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| Beyond the Google generation: towards community-specific usage patterns of scientific information | |
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| Generation gap and community | |
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| Disciplines and subjects in usage studies | |
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| The Google generation concept and French STM researchers | |
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| Cultural differences between fields | |
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| Convergence and intradisciplinarity | |
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| From community to ecosystem and hermeneutics | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| What we leave behind: the future of data curation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Selection for preservation | |
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| Why focus on scientific data when there is a considerable amount of data from the social sciences? | |
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| How should data be preserved? | |
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| Interoperability | |
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| The Semantic Web and data curation | |
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| End note | |
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| Dedication | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The digital curation toolkit: strategies for adding value to work-related social systems | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Strategies, methods and best practices for digital curation | |
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| Monitoring, highlighting and showcasing digital content | |
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| Knowing your users | |
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| Encouraging knowledge sharing | |
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| Incorporate emerging technologies, tools and applications | |
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| Monitoring and evaluation | |
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| Concluding thoughts | |
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| Notes | |
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| The JISC Business and Community Engagement Programme | |
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| Context and programme developmont | |
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| Establishing the Business and Community Engagement Programme | |
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| Defining business and community engagement | |
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| Key achievements of the JISC Business and Community Programme 2007-10 | |
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| Enhancing the management and exploitation of knowledge and expertise | |
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| Facilitating productive collaboration with business and the community | |
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| Enabling change - embedding BCE in institutional culture and competencies | |
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| Enabling the institution-external partner interface | |
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| Recent activities | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Skills Portal: a study skills and Information literacy portal created with Open Educational Resources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Open Educational Resources | |
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| What is OER? | |
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| Creative Commons licensing | |
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| Repositories | |
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| Project | |
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| Technology | |
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| Outcomes | |
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| Discussion | |
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| The four Rs of OER | |
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| Future developments | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Free at last | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Discipline/profession and need for theory | |
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| Components and purpose of a theoretical framework | |
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| Libraries are social institutions | |
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| Libraries as political sites | |
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| Technology and teleology | |
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| Teleology | |
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| How ICTs benefit the information professionals | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Flexible and agile university library and information services: skills and management methodologies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Teamwork: the good, the bad and the ugly | |
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| Skills and expertise | |
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| Methodologies for managing - Managing Successful Programmes, Customer Relationship Management and Agile | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The future of academic libraries in the digital age | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Current academic libraries in the digital age | |
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| Current functions and roles of academic libraries | |
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| Web-based information technology architecture in an academic library | |
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| Web-based library information resources and services | |
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| Library expansion and innovation projects | |
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| Driving forces to change the future | |
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| The future of academic libraries | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Roadblocks, potholes and obstructions on the path to new library futures | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Preparing the mind | |
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| Reconceptualising | |
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| Risk | |
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| Staff | |
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| Technology | |
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| Organisational issues | |
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| User engagement | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Reference | |
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| Index | |