From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure Access to Information in the Networked World

Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary adaptation of existing behavior and institutions to new media? Will the GII improve access to information for all? Wil...

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Main Author: Borgman, Christine L
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge MIT Press 2003
The MIT Press
Edition:1
Series:Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing
Subjects:
Computing and Processing
Digital libraries
Electronic information resources
Information Science
Information superhighway
Libraries
United States
ISBN:0262523450, 9780262523455
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - The Premise and the Promise of a Global Information Infrastructure -- 2 - Is It Digital or Is It a Library? Digital Libraries and Information Infrastructure -- 3 - Access to Information -- 4 - Books, Bytes, and Behavior -- 5 - Why Are Digital Libraries Hard to Use? -- 6 - Making Digital Libraries Easier to Use -- 7 - Whither, or Wither, Libraries? -- 8 - Acting Locally, Thinking Globally -- 9 - Toward a Global Digital Library: Progress and Prospects -- References -- Index