Digital Consumers

Re-shaping the Information Profession

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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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 purpose of this thought-provoking book is to provide that overarching vision, built on hard evidence rather than PowerPoint 'puff'. The authors of the acclaimed CIBER Google Generation study, and an international, cross-sectoral team of contributors has assembled together for this purpose. Key strategic areas covered include:the digital consumer: an introduction and philosophythe digital information marketplace and its economics: the end of exclusivitythe e-shopper: the growth of the informed purchaserthe library in the digital agethe psychology of the digital information consumerthe information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer: case study - the virtual scholarthe Google generation: myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviourtrends in digital information consumption and the futurewhere do we go from here? Readership: No information professional or student can afford not to read this far-reaching and important book.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-08-23
Mått163 x 241 x 19 mm
Vikt230 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagFacet Publishing
ISBN9781856046510

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Professor David Nicholas MPhil PhD is Director of the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, where he is also 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. Dr Ian Rowlands BSc MSc PhD is Reader in Publishing at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, where he is also an active member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and of the CIBER research group. He recently led the Google Generation project for The British Library and JISC.

1. The digital consumer: an introduction and philosophy - David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, Richard Withey and Tom Dobrowolski 2. The digital information marketplace and its economics: the end of exclusivity - Richard Withey 3. The e-shopper: the growth of the informed purchaser - Chris Russell 4. The library in the digital age - Michael Moss 5. The psychology of the digital information consumer - Barrie Gunter 6. The information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer: case study – the virtual scholar - David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Hamid R. Jamali and Tom Dobrowolski 7. The ‘Google Generation’ – myths and realities about young people’s digital information behaviour - Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands and Maggie Fieldhouse 8. Trends in digital information consumption and the future - Barrie Gunter 9. Where do we go from here? - David Nicholas.

"There is no doubt that the information professions would benefit from reviewing and reenergizing their customer orientation, and this book offers a wide range of valuable insights on the behaviour of the digital information consumer from one of the leading teams of information behaviour researchers in the UK…this book is to be recommended, and should be obligatory reading for all information professions."