This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2004, held in Shanghai, China in December 2004.

The 44 revised full papers, 15 revised short papers, and 37 posters presented together with 14 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 359 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on collaboration and localization, knowledge processing and knowledge discovery, information retrieval techniques, personalization issues in digital libraries, and service and management.