Exploring Digital Libraries : Foundations, Practice, Prospects

ISBN-13: 9781856048200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Karen Calhoun

Opis

This is a landmark textbook on digital libraries for students of LIS throughout the world. 'Digital Libraries' is an authoritative and in-depth treatment of the digital library arena that focuses on the functional and strategic, providing an unsurpassed overview of what's happening now and what will happen in the future.

Spis treści

1. Emergence and definitions of digital libraries

• Overview
• The emergence of digital libraries (1991-2001)
• Early digital-library projects
• Definitions of digital libraries
• Conclusion

2. Outcomes of digital libraries’ first decade

• Overview
• A new field of research and practice
• The transformation of scholarly communication processes
• Technical innovations
• Digitization and digital preservation
• Metadata and standards
• Working digital libraries
• Conclusion
• References to websites in Table 2.1

3. Key themes and challenges in digital libraries

• Overview
• The key themes of digital library work
• Key challenges
• Conclusion

4. Digital library collections: repositories

• Overview
• The traditional library worldview
• Repositories, libraries and the web
• The evolution of digital library repositories
• Conclusion

5. Hybrid libraries

• Overview
• Changing information-seeking behaviors
• Libraries’ response: changing hybrid library collections
• Changing technologies for hybrid libraries
• Conclusion

6. Social roles of digital libraries

• Overview
• Introduction
• Foundations of digital libraries’ social roles
• A possible framework of social roles
• Conclusion

7. Digital libraries and their communities

• Overview
• Approach
• Successful, sustainable digital libraries
• Inception: Purpose and focus
• Inception: Branding and awareness
• Creation: Community and needs orientation
• Creation: User-centered design, ease of use and reliability
• Growth: Quality content
• Maturity: Funding and sustainability
• Conclusion

8. The prospects of open access repositories

• Overview
• Successful subject-based repositories
• The value of institutional repositories
• The policy and legal frameworks
• Deposit mandates
• Other issues with self-archiving
• ‘Google has won’
• Making institutional repositories more valuable
• Future of repositories
• Conclusion

9. Digital libraries and the social web: scholarship

• Overview
• Introduction
• Background: Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
• What is the social web?
• Digital libraries and the social web
• Digital libraries’ social evolution: a visual framework
• Scholarship
• From personalization to collaboration
• Scholarly collaboration on the social web
• Conclusion

10. Digital libraries and the social web: collections and platforms

• Overview
• Visualizing the shift from collections to platforms
• The dilemma of the national or local collections focus
• Optimizing the reach and visibility of digital libraries
• Mass digitization and digital libraries
• Large-scale digital libraries, portals and platforms
• Crowdsourcing and citizen science
• Conclusion