Ziming Liu Ph. D.

Paper to Digital (eBook, PDF)

Documents in the Information Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is the paperless society really possible? What is the future of paper in the Digital Age?

Based on extensive statistics and six separate surveys, Paper to Digital explores the evolution and changing characteristics of documents in the Information Age. Resultant implications are studied through the examination of emerging issues in the digital environment.

This timely book represents a useful and scholarly exploration of a major concern in our society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781598847635
• Artikelnr.: 38329928

Autorenporträt

Dr. Ziming Liu received his Ph.D. in library and information studies at the University of California at Berkeley in 1996. Prior to joining the faculty at San José State University in 2000, he was a research scientist at Ricoh California Research Center and a visiting faculty member at the University of Washington. He has published numerous papers in top-tier scholarly journals such as Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (1995), Communications of the ACM (2000; 2003), Information Processing and Management (2003; 2004; 2006), Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1996; 1997), and Journal of Documentation (1997; 2004; 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Evolution of Documents and Its
Impacts Chapter 3: Trends in Transforming Scholarly Communications Chapter
4: Trust in the Preservation of Digital Information Chapter 5: Reading
Behavior in the Digital Environment Chapter 6: Gender Differences in the
Online Reading Environment Chapter 7: Perceptions of the Credibility of
Scholarly Information on the Web Chapter 8: Cultural Differences in
Credibility Assessment Chapter 9: Print vs. Electronic Resources: User
Perceptions, Preferences, and Use Chapter 10: The Future of Paper in the
Digital Age