Facet Publishing
Is Digital Different?: How Information Creation, Capture, Preservation and Discovery Are Being Transformed
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- Michael Moss
- Facet Publishing
- Hardcover
- 9781783302857
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- Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science - General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This edited collection brings together global experts to explore the role of information professionals in the transition from an analogue to a digital environment.
The contributors, including David Nicholas, Valerie Johnson, Tim Gollins and Scott David, focus on the opportunities and challenges afforded by this new environment that is transforming the information landscape in ways that were scarcely imaginable a decade ago and is challenging the very existence of the traditional library and archive as more and more resources become available on line and as computers and supporting networks become more and more powerful.
Is Digital Different? illustrates the ways in which the digital environment has the potential to transform scholarship and break down barriers between the academy and the wider community, and draws out both the inherent challenges and the opportunities for information professionals globally.
By drawing on examples of the impact of other new and emerging technologies on the information sciences in the past, the book emphasises that information systems have always been shaped by available technologies that have transformed the creation, capture, preservation and discovery of content.
Author Bio
Michael Moss is the author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist formerly with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, a keynote speaker, and a guest on shows like CBS This Morning, CNN The Lead, ATC and the Daily Show.
His work has ranged widely from exposing the corporate interests in nursing homes to the Pentagon's failures in providing soldiers with armor, and now focuses on the food industry in the context of health, safety, nutrition, politics, marketing, and the power of individuals to gain control of what and how they eat. More on Michael here. His next book, Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions, is being published by Random House on March 2, 2021.
Source: www.mossbooks.us
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