Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual

Terry Reese (Author), 

Kyle Banerjee (Author)

Book Description

Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission! Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This how-to offers detailed advice for: planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing documents; choosing a platform; specific technologies useful repositories (XML, SOAP, and more); sharing data; federated searching of repositories; understanding issues with allowing/restricting access to information; analyzing repository use, and migrating to other platforms and accommodating new types of data. Librarians looking for a timely, comprehensive guide to creating a digital collection will find this book an invaluable resource.

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Paperback: 277 pages
Publisher: Neal Schuman Publishers; 1 edition (December 27, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1555706177
ISBN-13: 978-1555706173
Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches

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Development of Digital Libraries: An American Perspective

Development of Digital Libraries: An American Perspective

(Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science) [Hardcover]

Deanna B. Marcum (Editor)

Book Description

Every year, leading librarians, scholars, and administrators from the United States are invited to give papers on important library-related topics at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology's Roundtable. From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic. In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States. Insight into the policy, legal, and technical frameworks of digital libraries is given, while honest views of problems encountered in trying to integrate digital and traditional libraries are given. Finally, some of the essays explore how users are affected by digital library services.

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Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Press (October 30, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313314780
ISBN-13: 978-0313314780
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches

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Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact

Yin-Leng Theng (Author, Editor), 

Schubert Foo (Author, Editor), 

Dion Goh (Author, Editor), 

Jin Cheon Na (Author, Editor)

Book Description

As digital libraries expand in their proliferation, and as researchers, students, and consumers increasingly depend on them for their information needs, developers are keen to learn more about the design, use, and usability of these systems.

The Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact is the single academic reference work to provide comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this in-depth collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries. It features: 56 authoritative contributions by over 130 of the world's leading experts on digital libraries from 25 countries; comprehensive coverage of each specific topic, highlighting recent trends and describing the latest advances in the field; more than 1,300 references to existing literature and research on digital libraries; and a compendium of over 370 key terms with detailed definitions. It is organized by topic and indexed, making it a convenient method of reference for all IT/IS scholars and professionals. It also features cross-referencing of key terms, figures, and information pertinent to digital libraries.

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Hardcover: 690 pages
Publisher: Information Science Reference; 1 edition (January 30, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1599048795
ISBN-13: 978-1599048796
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.7 x 1.6 inches

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Digital Library Development: The View from Kanazawa

Deanna B. Marcum (Editor),
Gerald George (Editor)

Book Description

An international cadre of leading thinkers and experimenters provide their considered opinions concerning the influence of digital technology on teaching and learning in general, and the role of the library in the educational enterprise in particular. Topic treatments include envisioning the future, facing major challenges, creating projects and programs, and developing digital libraries. A must-read for anyone involved in higher education.

The Kanazawa Institute of Technology is Japan's largest institution of higher education specializing in engineering and technology. It is a world leader and collaborator in electronic initiatives, often on the forefront of systems design and telecommunications advancement. It is also the site of an annual symposium series on digital library development. Marcum and George have pulled together an international cadre of leading thinkers and experimenters, all of whom have participated in these symposia, to provide their considered opinions concerning the influence of digital technology on teaching and learning in general, and the role of the library in the educational enterprise in particular. Their contributions have, in turn, been arranged into four thematic groupings, which range from envisioning the future, and facing major challenges, to creating projects and programs, and developing digital libraries. An informative read for anyone involved in higher education.

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Paperback: 284 pages
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited (December 30, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159158244X
ISBN-13: 978-1591582441
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches

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International Journal on Digital Libraries

International Journal on Digital Libraries

The International Journal on Digital Libraries is a quarterly journal aimed at advancing the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It emphasizes issues in digital information production, management, and use; high-speed networks and connectivity; interoperability and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks, and needs; security and privacy of individuals and business transactions; and effective business processes.

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World Digital Libraries

World Digital Libraries

World Digital Libraries is an international peer-reviewed biannual journal. The journal seeks quality research papers that present original theoretical approaches. It also seeks experimental case studies related to digital library developments, maintenance and dissemination of digital information focusing on research and integration of knowledge at the interface of resources and development. The journal will, therefore, keep readers abreast with the current developments and contain articles, reviews, current developments, and case studies, encompassing the following areas.

- Theoretical and methodological issues that relate to the interrelationships among electronic resources management, digital preservation, multiple access, multilinguality, copyright issues, and security aspects. - Theoretical approaches as well as experimental case studies related to digital library development and maintenance. - Initiatives towards digitization through lucid case studies. - Current developments across the globe. - Dialogues between the scientific community and society at large. 

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Library Jurnal

Library Jurnal

Library Journal is the most trusted and respected publication for the library community. Built on more than a century of quality journalism and reviews, LJ provides groundbreaking features and analytical news reports covering technology, management, policy and other professional concerns to public, academic and institutional libraries. Our hefty reviews sections evaluate 8000+ reviews annually of books, ebooks, audiobooks, videos/DVDs, databases, systems and websites. Our team of library and literary experts communicate with our audience through print, digital and live content and continuously strive to stay on the cutting edge of the ever-evolving world of libraries.

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