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      Publication date:
      08 June 2018
      23 August 2008
      ISBN:
      9781856047999
      9781856046510
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856047999
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    The information professions - librarianship, archives, publishing and, to some extent, journalism - have been rocked by the digital transition that has led to disintermediation, easy access and massive information choice. Professional skills are increasingly being performed without the necessary context, rationale and understanding. Information now forms a consumer commodity with many diverse information producers engaged in the market. It is generally the lack of recognition of this fact amongst the information professions that explains the difficulties they find themselves in. There is a need for a new belief system that will help information professionals survive and engage in a ubiquitous information environment, where they are no longer the dominant players, nor, indeed, the suppliers of first choice. The aim of this thought-provoking book is to provide that overarching vision, built on hard evidence rather than on PowerPoint 'puff'. An international, cross-sectoral team of contributors has been assembled for this purpose. Key strategic areas covered in this book include: the digital consumer - an introduction and philosophy; the digital information marketplace and its economics - the end of exclusivity; the e-shopper - the growth of the informed purchaser; the library in the digital age; the psychology of the digital information consumer; the information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer - case study - the virtual scholar; the Google generation - myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour; and, trends in digital information consumption and the future. Where do we go from here? No information professional or student can afford not to read this far-reaching and important book.

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    • 1 - The digital consumer: an introduction and philosophy
      pp 1-12
      • By David Nicholas, David is the Director of UCL SLAIS. He is also the Director of the UCL Centre for Publishing and a Director of the CIBER research group. He is a member of the British Library Research Board and editor of Aslib Proceedings., Ian Rowlands, Ian is Reader in Publishing at UCL SLAIS and an active member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and CIBER., Richard Withey, Richard has recently stepped down as global director of interactive media for Independent News & Media PLC (INM), a position held since May 2002., Tom Dobrowolski, Tom is a senior lecturer and Head of Postgraduate Studies at the Institute of Information Science and Book Studies, Warsaw University, the largest Information School in Poland.

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