Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Series preface -- 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 -- 1 The myth of the new: theories of technological discourses -- 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 -- 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 -- 3 Exploring methods for evaluating user behaviour -- Methods for case study research -- Quantitative methods -- Qualitative methods -- Summary -- 4 Institutional impact of large-scale digitised collections -- Institutional impact -- 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 -- 5 The impact of large- scale digitisation on users -- Users of large- scale digitisation -- Changing models of user behaviour -- Engagement with users of large-scale digitised collections -- Summary: where we're going, we'll still need readers -- 6 "Unequally free": mapping public access to digitised collections -- Innovative technologies, longstanding tensions -- Mapping the digitised divide -- Inequalities in access by English Public Library authority -- Summary: the digitised divide in action