University libraries around the world have embraced the possibilities of the digital learning environment, facilitating its use and proactively seeking to develop the provision of electronic resources and services. The digital environment offers opportunities and challenges for …
Digital information: order or anarchy?
"If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discoverable resources and sustainable business models, how might this be achieved? In an information environment shaped by an ever-growing and persistent demand for more and more digital content from…
If the vision for the future of digital information is order, ease of access, discoverable resources and sustainable business models, how might this be achieved? In an information environment shaped by an ever-growing and persistent demand for more and more digital content from …
Explain the principles behind access management, the available technologies and how they work. This includes an overview of federated access management technologies, such as Shibboleth, that have gained increasing international recognition in recent years. Provides detailed case…
The range of metadata needed to run a digital library and preserve its collections in the long term is much more extensive and complicated than anything in its traditional counterpart. It includes the same 'descriptive' information which guides users to the resources they requir…
How to build a digital library
by Bainbridge, David, Witten, Ian H.
fromMorgan Kaufmann
1. Orientation: The world of digital libraries 1 One: Supporting human development 1 Two: Pushing on the frontiers of science 1 Three: Preserving a traditional culture 2 Four: Exploring popular music 2 The scope of digital libraries 3 1.1. Libraries and digital libraries 4 1.2. …
The fully revised and updated second edition of this book from acclaimed author Phil Bradley takes a clear and practical approach as it explains exactly how to use the different types of Web 2.0 technologies, and shows how libraries can get the most out of them (using case studi…