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Author: Theng, Yin-Leng
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2009-02-28
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 1599048809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book is an in-depth collection aimed at developers and scholars of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Iglezakis, Ioannis
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2010-10-31
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 1609600339
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this book, a comprehensive review of various legal issues concerning digital libraries is presented"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Aaron D. Purcell
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0838914586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlanning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries, combines theory and best practices with practical application, showing how to approach digital projects as an ongoing effort. He not only guides librarians and archivists in transitioning from project-level initiatives to a sustainable program but also provides clear step-by-step instructions for building a digital library program from the bottom up, even for organizations with limited staff. Approachable and easy to follow, this book traces the historical growth of digital libraries and the importance of those digital foundations; summarizes current technological challenges that affect the planning of digital libraries, and how librarians and archivists are adapting to the changing information landscape; uses examples to lay out the core priorities of leading successful digital programs; covers the essentials of getting started, from vision and mission building to identifying resources and partnerships; emphasizes the importance of digitizing original unique materials found in library and archives collections, and suggests approaches to the selection process; addresses metadata and key technical standards; discusses management and daily operations, including assessment, enhancement, sustainability, and long-term preservation planning; provides guidance for marketing, promotion, and outreach, plus how to take into account such considerations as access points, intended audiences, and educational and instructional components; and includes exercises designed to help readers define their own digital projects and create a real-world digital program plan. Equally valuable for LIS students just learning about the digital landscape, information professionals taking their first steps to create digital content, and organizations who already have well-established digital credentials, Purcell's book outlines methods applicable and scalable to many different types and sizes of libraries and archives.
Author: Kyle Banerjee
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2018-12-20
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 083891635X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhether you’re embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection from scratch, or simply need to understand the conceptual and technical challenges of constructing a digital library, this top-to-bottom resource is the ideal guidebook to keep at your side, especially in this thoroughly updated and reworked edition. Demonstrating how resources are created, distributed, and accessed, and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks, its chapters walk you step-by-step through every stage. Demystifying core technologies and workflows, this book comprehensively covers needs assessment and planning for a digital repository;choosing a platform;acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content;storing and managing resources in a digital repository;digital preservation;technologies and standards useful to digital repositories, including XML, the Portland Common Data Model, metadata schema such as Dublin Core, scripting using JSON and REST, linked open data, and automated metadata assignment;sharing data and metadata;understanding information-access issues, including digital rights management; andanalyzing repository use, planning for the future, migrating to new platforms, and accommodating new types of data. This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.
Author: Milena Dobreva
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 2012-06-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1856047652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis landmark text captures a global cross-section of leading voices and provides a clear and coherent overview of the user studies domain and user issues in digital libraries. As the information environment becomes increasingly electronic, digital libraries have proliferated, but the focus has often been on innovations in technology and not the user. Although user needs have become a popular concept, in practice the users are rarely consulted in the development of services. Research and analysis of users is essential to fine-tune the content and approach of digital libraries to the diverging requirements and expectations of incredibly varied communities and to ensure libraries are effective, accessible and sustainable in the long term. Key topics include: • what is the place of user studies in digital libraries and what are the basic user study methods? • explaining user-centric studies, information behaviour and user experience studies • exploring user-study methods such as surveys, questionnaires, expert evaluation methods, eye tracking, deep log analysis, personae and ethnographic studies • critical issues around user studies such as evaluation of digital libraries, digital preservation, social media, the shift to mobile devices and ethics • user studies in specific types of institutions: libraries, archives, museums, audiovisual collections and art collections • the most popular questions and what to do next. Readership: Information professionals involved in supporting, developing or designing digital library services, researchers wanting to address the user dimension in their work and students on LIS and computer science courses who want to understand the importance of the user in information services.
Author: Deanna B. Marcum
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-10-30
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0313075107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery 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.
Author: Ashraf, Tariq
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2010-03-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 1615207686
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book provides tools to complement an organization's burgeoning information treasuries, exploring new frontiers by looking at social and economic aspects of digital libraries and their sustainability"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Ashraf, Tariq
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2012-11-30
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1466625015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book offers a global perspective on the development and design of a digital library and highlights its benefits over a traditional library"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Edward A. Fox
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2005-11-30
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 3540308504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2005. The 40 revised full papers, 15 revised short papers, and 15 posters presented together with 5 keynote and invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 164 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on concepts and models for digital library systems, case studies in digital libraries, digital archives and museums, multimedia digital libraries, information processing in asian digital libraries, digital libraries for community building, information retrieval techniques, ontologies and content management in digital libraries, information integration and retrieval technologies in digital libraries, information mining technologies in digital libraries, digital library system architecture and implementations, information processing in digital libraries, human-computer interfaces, and metadata issues in digital libraries.
Author: László Kovács
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-09-06
Total Pages: 600
ISBN-13: 3540748504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, ECDL 2007, held in Budapest, Hungary. The papers are organized in topical sections on ontologies, digital libraries and the web, models, multimedia and multilingual DLs, grid and peer-to-peer, preservation, user interfaces, document linking, information retrieval, personal information management, new DL applications, and user studies.
