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Digitisation: Do We Have a Strategy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

David Pearson
David Pearson
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David Pearson can be contacted at [email protected]. This article was first published in Ariadne Issue 20 (www.ariadne.ac.uk
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The notion that we are living through times of great change in the communication of information and the transmission of texts is a truism which will bring a weary look to most professionals with any kind of involvement in the area. The digital age, the information age, the electronic age — we've all heard these terms so many times and have sat through innumerable discussions, and seen even more documents, trying to sort out what it all means. There are almost as many views on the likely pace of change and the shape of the landscape 10 or 20 years from now as there are librarians to hold forth on the subject. Perhaps this helps to explain why the library community as a whole seems to be in such a rudderless state regarding the creation of digital content; no shortage of action, but no overall sense of direction. I am talking here about digitisation of our documentary heritage, that vast mass of books, archives and other media which fill our library shelves today.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Spring 2002 , pp. 35 - 39
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Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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