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ISBN 10: 1472463382

ISBN 13: 9781472463388

Author: Paul Gooding

In recent years, cultural institutions and commercial providers have created extensive digitised newspaper collections. This book asks the timely question: what can the large-scale digitisation of newspapers tell us about the wider cultural phenomenon of mass digitisation? The unique form and materiality of newspapers, and their grounding in a particular time and place, provide challenges for researchers and digital resource creators alike. At the same time, the wider context in which digitisation of cultural heritage occurs shapes the impact of digital resources in ways which fall short of the grand ambitions of the wider theoretical discourse. Drawing on case studies from leading digitised newspaper collections, the book aims to provide a bridge between the theory and practice of how these digitised collections are being used. Beginning with an exploration of the hyperbolic nature of technological discourses, the author explores how web interfaces, funding models and the realities of contemporary user behaviour contrast with the hyperbolic discourse surrounding mass digitisation. This book will be of particular interest to those who want to investigate how user studies can inform our understanding of technological phenomena, including digital resource creators, information professionals, students and researchers in universities, libraries, museums and archives.

Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age Search All About It 1st Table of contents:

1 The myth of the new: theories of technological discourses

Google Books: the universal library reimagined

The role of the technological sublime

Diffusion of innovations

Mechanical reproduction and the end of the age of the author

The city and information overload

Reality and remediation

Summary: waiting for the paradigm shift

2 Digitised newspapers: histories, contexts, behaviours

The history of newspapers in the United Kingdom

Issues for the identity of libraries in the digital age

Existing research into online user behaviour

Summary: concurrent discourses of digitisation

3 Exploring methods for evaluating user behaviour

Methods for case study research

Quantitative methods

Qualitative methods

Summary

4 Institutional impact of large-scale digitised collections

Institutional impact

Implications for user support

Licensing and copyright: dual barriers to impact

What role do libraries have in an age of large-scale digitisation?

Summary: online access and the future of libraries

5 The impact of large- scale digitisation on users

Users of large- scale digitisation

Changing models of user behaviour

Engagement with users of large-scale digitised collections

Summary: where we’re going, we’ll still need readers

6 “Unequally free”: mapping public access to digitised collections

Innovative technologies, longstanding tensions

Mapping the digitised divide

Inequalities in access by English Public Library authority

Summary: the digitised divide in action

7 Conclusion: where we’re going, we’ll still need Ranganathan

Introduction

Access to digitised library collections

Recommendations

The stakes for digitised collections

Summary: library digitisation as a public service

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