Digital consumers
Subtitle: reshaping the information professions
By: edited by David Nicholas and Ian Rowlands
Publisher: Facet
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781856046510
Subjects: Electronic information resources; Academic libraries; Effect of technological innovations on; Digital media; Social aspects; Sources d'information electroniques; Nuevas tecnologias de la informacion y de la comunicacion; Recuperacion de la informacion; Neue Medien; Informationsbeschaffung; Information services; Professions de l'information; Societe de l'information; Gestion electronique des documents; Utilisateurs d'information; Recherche documentaire; Internet; Elektroniska informationsresurser
Description: 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. This book provides that overarching vision.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The digital consumer : an introduction and philosophy  -- David Nicholas ... [et al.]; title: The digital information marketplace and its economics : the end of exclusivity  -- Richard Withey; title: The e-shopper : the growth of the informed purchaser  -- Chris Russell; title: The library in the digital age  -- Michael Moss; title: The psychology of the digital information consumer  -- Barrie Gunter; title: The information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer : case study : the virtual scholar  -- David Nicholas ... [et al.]; title: The "Google generation" : myths and realities about young people's digital information behaviour  -- Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands, and Maggie Fieldhouse; title: Trends in digital information consumption and the future  -- Barrie Gunter; title: Where do we go from here? -- David Nicholas.