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Digital library philosophy

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Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital Library: Proceedings of a UK conference on digital libraries held in June 1997. Includes material on the world of digital information, research and development programmes, changing relationships between information, education and learning, measurement of activities in the information field, progress in using metadata, developments in enforcing user authentication, and intellectual property issues.
Author: Marc Fresko Consultancy, UKOLN
Subjects: digital library philosophy, digital library programmes
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: proceedings
British Library Research and Innovation Centre Reports and Papers: Part of the UKOLN server carrying a selection of British Library Reports. Includes reports on Digital Libraries, the Impact of Electronic Publishing on Library Services, Long-Term Preservation of Electronic Materials and Networked Information in an International Context. Last updated 1998.
Author: British Library and UKOLN
Subjects: digital library archiving, digital library philosophy, electronic publishing, library and information science research, library internet use, library services, technology impact
DeweyClass: 027.5
Resource type: documents
Current Cites: Library and information science current awareness newsletter with summaries of articles on developments in electronic information provision and delivery in relation to libraries. Archives available online from 1990 onwards.
Author: Lease Morgan, Eric
Subjects: digital library philosophy, electronic publishing, information technology, library and information science news, library internet use
DeweyClass: 025.525
Resource type: magazine
Digital Libraries and Special Libraries: Initial Concerns of Special Libraries in the Social Welfare Sector: Report from a project investigating the impact of digital libraries and the Internet on special libraries. The project also addressed the extent to which practitioners working in local government or voluntary social service agencies are being prevented from accessing digital library developments through lack of access to the UK Higher Education network, the digital resources academic libraries provide themselves and various collaborative schemes which offer access to digital resources across the academic network as a whole.
Author: Watson, Mark & Streatfield, David
Subjects: digital library philosophy, digital library use, special libraries
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Digital Libraries, Knowledge Networks, and Human-Centered Information Systems: Paper discussing the role of digital libraries and knowledge networks in the growth of the computing and communications industries. It considers the issue in the context of human centred information systems.
Author: Chien, Y. T.
Subjects: digital library philosophy
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Digital Libraries: A Unifying or Distributing Force?: Paper addressing the potential consequences of changes to digital information. Suggests that universities can cope by being more proactive in their use of the Web for reward and communication.
Author: Lesk, Michael
Subjects: digital library philosophy, library internet use
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Digital Library Federation: Information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress. With forum, newsletter, and articles.
Author: Digital Library Federation
Subjects: digital library philosophy, library organisations
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: documents, news
Do Libraries Really Need Books?: Article looking at changing information needs in today's society and the prevalence of digital information. The value of the book is assessed, considering the current activity of libraries and librarians, with examples of those continuing to increase their stock of printed material as well as the emergence of the 'new library' which largely focuses on electronic media.
Author: Carlson, Scott
Subjects: book studies, digital library philosophy, library services
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Early Impact of eLib Activities on Cultural Change in Higher Education: Study exploring the potential of the eLib programme to stimulate or 'mobilise' the higher education community towards positive cultural change, that would facilitate the uptake and usefulness of electronic resources such as the innovations developed within the eLib programme.
Author: Davies, Clare et al
Subjects: digital library philosophy, technology impact
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: document
Joint Funding Councils' Libraries Review Group (Follett Report): Influential analysis of UK university library provision in 1993.
Author: Joint Funding Councils
Subjects: academic library research, digital library philosophy
DeweyClass: 020
Resource type: document
Paper Persists: Why Physical Library Collections Still Matter: Discussion about the unlikely death of print pointing to reasons why paper will persist including the difficulty of reading from digital devices, the enormous task of converting all existing print collections, the cost of providing all reading material digitally and the question of publishers rights.
Author: Crawford, Walt
Subjects: digital library philosophy
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Using Digital Libraries as a Community Hall for Worldwide Information Spiral Development: Paper describing the concept of a digital library from the user's perspective, based on information flow and organisation. An explanation is given using a three-layer model of information distribution, focusing on the information provider, information broker and information user.
Author: Ashizawa, Minoru; Kikuchi, Hideaki; Mishina, Yusuke; Fujisawa, Hiromichi; Hidaka, Minoru; Yamazaki, Naoko & Sakurai, Akito
Subjects: digital library philosophy, document delivery
DeweyClass: 025.0
Resource type: article
Will Libraries Survive?: Article considering the historical use of public libraries in the US, and whether the increasing availability of networked computers will diminish the public library's traditional role still further. It asserts that the book will remain the primary form for reading works which are at the center of cultural life and which make up the core of public library collections.
Author: Nunberg, Geofrey
Subjects: digital library philosophy, public libraries
DeweyClass: 027.4
Resource type: article