Library Trends 57 (1) Summer 2008: Digital Books and the Impact on Libraries

 

Library Trends 57 (1) Summer 2008: Digital Books and the Impact on Libraries. Edited by Peter Brantley

In the last few years, books have energetically joined smaller niches of content in the digital uplift of the twenty-first century. Part of this sudden transition was the development of imaging systems that permitted individuals and companies to digitize at a pace never previously imagined. Technology, as it so often does, turned in part from facilitator to catalyst.

Yet technology never determines applications, and it was the release of Google’s vision for a searchable online repository for the world’s printed books that ignited the imagination of countless people and organizations, with a dollop of uncertainty on the part of every principal involved: authors, whose intellectual creations became suddenly transformed into a binary index; publishers, who wondered what role in distribution they would have in a visible future where Amazon and Google could surface their most valuable assets; libraries, who wondered if there would be a role for anything beyond warehousing print books gathering dust on shelves; and scholars, who worried about the quality of the book’s online presence while exulting in the new capacities to find information, and combine it with a heterogeneity of sources never before imagined. (from the introduction)


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  • Sukovic, Suzana (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Electronic environments for information discovery are considered in relation to open-ended and dynamic research practices in the humanities, but a system suitable for these scholars would have many other applications ...

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    Comprehensive data repositories are an essential part of practically all research carried out in the digital humanities nowadays. For example, library science, literary studies, and computational and corpus linguistics ...

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  • Dawson, Laura (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    The boom in self-publishing has created a market of hundreds of thousands of new books a year. The Library of Congress doesn’t catalog most of these. Is it fair to dismiss these books as “vanity publications,” or are ...

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    In this challenging call to arms, Sara Lloyd, head of digital publishing at the United Kingdom trade publishing house, Pan Macmillan, explores whether there will be a role for publishers in a digital future and discusses ...

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    Libraries and book publishers coevolved during the period of information scarcity, and developed cultural traits that are affecting their strategies in the new era of content abundance. Both industries are under threat. ...

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