Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals - Paperback

by Andrew Weiss (Author)

Big Data Shocks examines the roots of big data, the current climate and rising stars in this world. The book explores the issues raised by big data and discusses theoretical as well as practical approaches to managing information whose scope exists beyond the human scale.

Author Biography

Andrew Weiss is a digital services librarian at California State University, Northridge, with over ten years of experience working in an academic library. His current and prior research examines the impact of massive digital libraries such as Google Books and the HathiTrust on libraries and library users, the future directions of open access publishing, information overload, and the intersection of big data and assessment in libraries.