025.0 Digital libraries in universities and colleges
025.0 California Digital
Library
A library service offering browsing and searching facilities online.
Collections include indexes, databases, electronic journals and texts,
archival finding aids, and digitised photographs and images. Guides and
tutorials on how to search the library effectively are included.
025.0 Center for Research and
Development of Digital Libraries (CRADLE)
CRADLE is a community of researchers, practitioners, and educators
interested in digital libraries. They have many active areas of digital
library research, train digital librarians in the university, and
provide continuing education to those in the community.
025.0 Centre for Digital
Libraries Research
The Centre is involved in real applications of digital libraries,
museums and galleries in order to fully understand the user’s
requirements, real-world problems and to develop research. It works on
multimedia archives for museums and galleries or virtual museums. The
Multimedia Research Group has particular expertise in linkbases (links
stored outside the material), agents, object-oriented databases,
content-based retrieval and accurate imaging.
025.0 Cornell
Digital Library Research Group
CDLRG research investigates infrastructure for component-ware
digital libararies. This research involves defining the core components
of such a modular infrastructure and the interactions among these
components to produce usable instantiations of digital libraries.
025.0 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.
025.0 Digital Research
Library, University of Pittsburgh
The Digital Research Library of the University of Pittsburgh’s
library system serves users through the creation and maintenance of
Web-accessible digital research collections. It also serves as a
knowledge resource within the university for digital library issues and
developments.
025.0 Digital
Scriptorium
Collection of digitised Medieval and Early Renaissance manuscripts
and documents from the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book
and Manuscript Library of Columbia University. The database enables
searching by shelfmark, country, author and title, and manuscripts are
displayed as thumbnail images and in small, medium and large sizes.
025.0 Do
Digital Libraries Need Librarians? An Experiential Dialog
Brief discussion of what constitutes a digital library, the effects
of technology on the role of the librarian, and technology-based
attempts at information access. Concludes that librarians and
technologists need to work together in the development of digital
libraries.
025.0 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.
025.0 Effective Use
of Electronic Information Sources
Solutions suggested to the problem that although many members of the
academic community acknowledge electronic information sources have an
impact on their work, many of these services remain under used. Part of
a series of guides written by the IMPEL2 Project based on findings from
case studies conducted in the library and information services of 24 UK
universities and colleges during 1996-97.
025.0 eLib
Standards Guidelines
Provides advice and guidance for eLib projects. Guidelines are from
1996 and 1998, covering a wide range of electronic format and
interchange standards, as well as references to more detailed reading.
025.0 Integrated
Information Environment for Higher Education: Developing the
Distributed, National Electronic Resource (DNER)
The JISC currently funds a number of data centres, data services,
and projects, using different delivery modes, which contribute to the
electronic content available to the UK higher education community. This
document describes the parameters of the distributed national electronic
resource, sets out policies for its development, and identifies areas
for collaboration with data providers and data users outwith the HE
sector.
025.0 Old Dominion University Digital
Library Research Group
The Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group is
engaged in various aspects of digital library research and are building
and demonstrating novel digital library services.
025.0 Research
Assessment Exercise and Usage of BIDS-ISI
Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DDRG)
who investigated the hypothesis that level of BIDS ISI usage is related
to the criteria of research performance in universities. To do this,
academic usage of the database was analysed in conjunction with
institutional performance in the 1992 and 1996 Research Assessment
Exercises (RAE).
025.0 Resource Based
Learning and the Impact on Library and Information Services
Discussion of the role of LIS in, and the effect of, the shift to
resource based learning. Part of a series of guides written by the
IMPEL2 Project based on findings from case studies conducted in the
library and information services of 24 UK universities and colleges
during 1996-97.
025.0 Structure and
Strategy
Discussion of issues of structure and strategy required to
incorporate communications and information technology into library
services as they become more central to the workings of higher
education. Part of a series of guides written by the IMPEL2 Project
based on findings from case studies conducted in the library and
information services of 24 UK universities and colleges during 1996-97.
