Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is the same and what is different / Michael Moss -- Finding stuff / David Nicholas and David Clark -- RDF, the Semantic Web, Jordan, Jordan, Jordan / Norman Gray -- Crowdsourcing / Ylva Berglund Prytz -- Pathways to integrating technical, legal and economic considerations in the design, development and deployment of trusted IM systems / Scott David and Barbara Endicott-Popovsky -- Finding archived records in a digital age / Tim Gollins and Emma Bayne -- Security: managing online risk / Barbara Endicott-Popovsky -- Rights and the commons: navigating the boundary between public and private knowledge spaces / Gaavan McCarthy and Helen Morgan -- From the Library of Alexandria to the Google Campus: has the digital changed the way we do research? / David Thomas and Valerie Johnson.

This edited collection brings together global experts on the impact of new technology on information services. Covering a range of key topics around discovery and preservation, this book explores the role of information professionals in a rapidly changing digital landscape that is challenging the very existence of the traditional library. Focusing on the issues surrounding the transition from an analogue to a digital environment, contributors examine whether analog practices and procedures are still valid and if they shape or distort those in the digital realm. The digital environment has the potential to transform scholarship and break down barriers between academia and the wider community through social networks and crowd sourcing, and this thought-provoking collection draws out both the inherent challenges and the opportunities.