TY - JOUR
T1 - Research Libraries and the internet
T2 - On the transformative dynamic between institutions and digital media
AU - Finnemann, Niels Ole
N1 - Special Issue: The future of research libraries Guest editor(s): Birger Hjørland, Hans Jørn Nielsen and Helene Høyrup
PY - 2014/2/10
Y1 - 2014/2/10
N2 - The paper argues that digital media have a disruptive potential, but path dependency is often a modifying component in the historical development. This is demonstrated in different stages of the development of the interrelationship between digitization, digital media and research libraries. Today the historical dynamic has reached a point where all institutions concerned with knowledge handling will have to redefine themselves. Research libraries are gradually incorporated into a number of new “research infrastructures” which are being built around different kinds of data materials, and each research library may specialize according to some sort of coordinated criteria.
AB - The paper argues that digital media have a disruptive potential, but path dependency is often a modifying component in the historical development. This is demonstrated in different stages of the development of the interrelationship between digitization, digital media and research libraries. Today the historical dynamic has reached a point where all institutions concerned with knowledge handling will have to redefine themselves. Research libraries are gradually incorporated into a number of new “research infrastructures” which are being built around different kinds of data materials, and each research library may specialize according to some sort of coordinated criteria.
U2 - 10.1108/JD-05-2013-0059
DO - 10.1108/JD-05-2013-0059
M3 - Journal article
VL - 70
SP - 202
EP - 220
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
SN - 0022-0418
IS - 2
M1 - Volume 70 issue 2
ER -