Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age

Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction: Search All About It!

Methods for Assessing Impact

User Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper Digitisation

Summary

Chapter Bibliography

1 The Myth of the New

Google Books: The Universal Library Reimagined

The Role of the Technological Sublime

Diffusion of Innovations

Mechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the Author

The City and Information Overload

Reality and Remediation

Summary: Waiting for the Paradigm Shift

Chapter Bibliography

2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, Behaviours

The History of Newspapers in the United Kingdom

Issues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital Age

Existing Research into Online User Behaviour

Summary: Concurrent Discourses of Digitisation

Chapter Bibliography

3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User Behaviour

Methods for Case Study Research

Quantitative Methods

Web Analytics

Referrer Analysis

Citation Analysis

Link Analysis

Qualitative Methods

Interviews

Surveys

Summary

Chapter Bibliography

4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised Collection

Institutional Impact

Case Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impacts

Implications for User Support

Licensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to Impact

What Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation?

Summary: Online Access and the Future of Libraries

Chapter Bibliography

5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon Users

Users of Large-Scale Digitisation

Case Study: Citation Analysis of BNCN

Case Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised Newspapers

Changing Models of User Behaviour

Case Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers Online

Engagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised Collections

Summary: Where We're Going We'll Still Need Readers

Chapter Bibliography

6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised Collections

Innovative Technologies, Longstanding Tensions

Mapping the Digitised Divide

Case Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper Collections

Inequalities in Access by English Public Library Authority

Summary: The Digitised Divide in Action

Chapter Bibliography

7 Conclusion: Where We're Going, We'll Still Need Ranganathan

Introduction

Access to Digitised Library Collections

Recommendations

The Stakes for Digitised Collections

Open Access

Open Interfaces

Open Dialogue

Summary: Library Digitisation as a Public Service

Chapter Bibliography