Meet the digital challenge

or face the risk of anarchy

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Increasing demand for high-quality digital content is one of today's biggest challenges facing librarians, publishers and information professionals. An ordered future is not certain, and anarchy may prevail, unless the challenge is met head on. Because the implications of failure are so great, CILIP will present this major new conference to help all those involved find a way through the digital maze.

An impressive panel of thought leaders from across the information community has been secured, and the programme will provide insight into how the information community should respond to unprecedented market developments. It is specifically aimed at professionals in the public and academic sectors, commercial researchers, and scholarly and trade publishers, and has been carefully structured to allow interaction and debate.

Programme directors Hazel Woodward (Cranfield University) and Lorraine Estelle (JISC Collections) are editing a new Facet Publishing title, Digital Information: order or anarchy, which is due out in December. It complements the conference with expert contributions from international contributors and copies can be ordered now (see below for more details)

As delegate places are limited immediate online booking is strongly advised.

New book from Facet Publishing

Digital Information: Order or anarchy?
Hazel Woodward and Lorraine Estelle, programme directors and keynote speakers of the What Future for Digital Information conference, bring together contributions from an international, cross-sectoral team in their new book, Digital Information: Order or anarchy? to be published in December 2009.

As it becomes increasingly important that publishers, libraries and information professionals understand the challenges and opportunities of the Google environment, this edited collection looks at the future of digital information. It considers how any barriers might be overcome and what the digital information environment might look like if these barriers are – or indeed are not – addressed.

December 2009; 288pp; hardback; 978-1-85604-680-0; £44.95 (£33.71 to conference delegates)

Facet Publishing are offering delegates a special 25% discount. To qualify complete and return the special order form in your delegate pack before the 18th December 2009. Visit the Facet Publishing website for further details.