Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual institutions. Familiarizes readers with general and library specific technologies required to provide digital library services Helps readers better understand trade offs between in-house and vendor solutions Provides library decision makers with technology staffing guidance
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries held in Pisa, Italy, in January 2011.
Exploring Digital Libraries: Integrating Browsing, Searching, and Visualization, Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 1-10 Shiaw, H.; Jacob, R. & Crane, G. (2004).
The book deals with practical and theoretical issues on digital libraries development and evaluation It will be multi-disciplinary due to its nature incorporating views and perspectives of various contributing fields Distinguished digital ...
This volume is the first book coherently summarizing the current issues in digital libraries research, design and management.
This book highlights and study that the combination of these effects is likely to have a positive impact not only from an economic point of view but more broadly from a social point of view.
If the documents created by an author named James Smith appear in the repository under “Jim Smith;” “Smith, James;” “J. T. Smith;” “Smith, James T.;” “Smith, J.”; and a number of other variations, finding documents that he authored and ...
First published in French in 2005. Kuhn, ThomasS. 1970.The Structureof Scientific Revolutions. 2nd ed.Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press. Licklider, J.C.R.1965. Librariesof the Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Schmitz, Dawn. 2008.
The emergence of the Internet and the wide availability of affordable computing equipment have created tremendous interest in digital libraries and electronic publishing. This book is the first to provide...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, held in Bari, Italy, in February 2012.
"This books presents a holistic view of the new digital library scene ... it is an essential guide to good digital practice and techniques" - back cover.