The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment

The age of digital librarianship is here to stay, and if you're interested in keeping the operating costs of your information provision within certain workable parameters, then you'll want to tap into the direction and futuristic vision in The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. In this collection of addresses and papers by world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship, you'll see how information professionals around the globe are coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets.The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment comes to you on the many new waves of technology that have made it possible to access the largest base of digital information to date. You'll come to grips with the ever-looming questions of cost and expense in this rapidly changing and diversifying information arena, and you'll adopt sound plans for an economically stable means of keeping your own library in high operation. Specifically, you'll discover important direction relating to this prevalent concern, including: challenging marketplace solutions to problems in the economics of information economic modeling of investments in information resources at academic institutions case studies in transforming the scholarly process the salvific potential of e-serials the economics of resource sharing, consortia, and document delivery measuring costs and benefits of distance learningIt's true that with increased efficiency and technological development comes an increase in cost--and the world's libraries are no exception. In reading The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment, you'll become better equippedto deal with the financial strains the new waves of technological advancement have put on your current methods of information acquisition.