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"African Studies in the Digital Age. DisConnects? is an essential new analysis of the effects of the digital revolution on the study of Africa, tackling questions of digitisation, access and resources, new opportunities and digital divides"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barringer, Terry (Editor ), Wallace, Marion (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Temas:
Electronic information resources > Africa.
Sources d'information électroniques > Afrique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Electronic information resources.
Africa > Study and teaching > Electronic information resources.
Africa > Research > Electronic information resources.
Afrique > Étude et enseignement > Sources d'information électroniques.
Afrique > Recherche > Sources d'information électroniques.
Africa.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • African studies in the digital age : challenges for research and national libraries / Ian Cooke and Marion Wallace
  • Dazzled by digital? : research environments in African universities and their implications for the use of digital resources / Jonathan Harle
  • Data, data everywhere, but not a byte to think : the pitfalls of increased access to digital resources in university history departments in Zimbabwe / Diana Jeater
  • Improving digital collection access with simple search engine optimisation strategies / Daniel A. Reboussin and Laurie N. Taylor
  • Building futures : the role of digital collections in shaping national identity in Africa / Rebecca Kahn and Simon Tanner
  • The West African manuscript heritage : challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy / Amidu Sanni
  • Recovering the African printed past : virtually re-membering a dispersed collection in Eritrea / Massimo Zaccaria
  • Archives and the past : cataloguing and digitisation in Uganda's archives / Edgar C. Taylor, Ashley Brooke Rockenbach and Natalie Bond
  • 'Life is so summarised' : society's memory in the digital age in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn and Walter Gam Nkwi
  • African newspapers in the online world : information gains and losses / Hartmut Bergenthum
  • Viewing 'Africa through a lens' : using digitisation and online tools at the National Archives (UK) to widen audience reach / Jenni Orme
  • The integration of historical cartography into the present day : the Darfur case / Lucia Lovison-Golob
  • Concluding remarks / Peter Limb.

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