Libraries, the long tail and the future of legacy print collections
Since Chris Anderson first aired his concept of the emerging “long tail” market in an editorial in Wired Magazine in 2004, librarians have been contemplating its relevance to the future of information storage and access. Anderson’s long tail theory is an attempt to explain the changes that have occu...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1544372021-12-22T20:11:20Z Libraries, the long tail and the future of legacy print collections Genoni, Paul Library and information science Since Chris Anderson first aired his concept of the emerging “long tail” market in an editorial in Wired Magazine in 2004, librarians have been contemplating its relevance to the future of information storage and access. Anderson’s long tail theory is an attempt to explain the changes that have occurred to markets as both the records of trade (that is, inventories and catalogues) and the traded items themselves, have become digital rather than physical (or in Anderson’s terms, bits rather than atoms). Published version 2021-12-22T08:13:12Z 2021-12-22T08:13:12Z 2007 Journal Article Genoni, P. (2007). Libraries, the long tail and the future of legacy print collections. Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 17(1), 1-10. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LIBRES.2007.1.3 1058-6768 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154437 10.32655/LIBRES.2007.1.3 1 17 1 10 en Library and Information Science Research E-Journal © 2007 Paul Genoni. All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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