025.0 Berkeley Digital Library: SunSITE
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds digital collections and
services while providing information and support to digital library
developers worldwide.
025.0 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.
025.0 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.
025.0 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.
025.0 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.
025.0 Digital Library Information and
Resources
A personal selection of resources, publications and projects
relating to digital library research.
025.0 Digital
Library Tool Kit
Articles addressing issues involved in developing digital content
and distributing it on the Web. Covers planning and implementation,
resources, current research, existing digital library systems, and
future developments.
025.0 Digital Preservation
Coalition
A collaborative organisation which aims to secure the preservation
of digital resources in the UK, and to promote related standards on a
global scale. Provides access to a practical guide covering the
management of digital resources over time and sustaining access to them.
Also offers a quarterly publication jointly operated by the coalition
and the Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI) Gateway
informing the community of recent developments.
025.0 Digital
Strategy for the Library of Congress
Report from July 2000 urging the library to define policies for the
collection of Web resources created in the US, so as to uphold its
mission, and to form a high-level planning group to develop digital
preservation strategies. Chapter titles include Preserving a Digital
Heritage, The Library of Congress and the World Beyond Its Walls, and
Information Technology Infrastructure.
025.0 D-Lib Edu:
Resources for Education in Digital Libraries
Digital libraries deal with human knowledge records in electronic
forms and networked environments. Computers are very effective with
well-defined problems. Dealing with human knowledge records is not a
well-defined problem. Thus, digital libraries present a formidable set
of problems for research to establish an effective alliance between
modern technology and use of libraries containing modern human knowledge
records.
025.0 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.
025.0 Framework
for Digital Library Research
Article outlining a proposed model for the development of digital
library research. Covers a number of themes such as accessibility, user
support, requirements and behaviour, structural issues, navigation and
search tools, metadata, information retrieval, interface design,
functionality, security, and sustainability.
025.0 Framework
of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections
2004 edition of NISO’s guidelines, which provide an overview of some
of the major components and activities involved in creating good digital
collections, as well as a framework for identifying, organising, and
applying existing knowledge and resources to support the development of
sound local practices for creating and managing good digital
collections. Available in PDF and HTML formats.
025.0 Information
Online and On Disc 99: Strategies for the Next Millennium
Proceedings of the Ninth Australasian Information Online and On Disc
Conference and Exhibition, held in Sydney Australia, January 1999. Many
of the papers reflect the challenges of managing information. Issues
include access and rights, sustaining sites, improving access via
gateways, verification and authentication, search engines and
directories, integration with existing library information systems, and
using the technology of the Internet in tasks such as serving remote
library users.
025.524 Institutional
Portals: A Review of Outputs
Report prepared by the JISC funded PORTAL (Presenting natiOnal
Resources To Audiences Locally) project reviewing institutional portals,
recent and forthcoming developments, and the outputs from a number of
portal activities. Report investigates the motivation behind the wide
deployment of portal technologies in University libraries and the
commercial sector, whilst also detailing the outputs of current
institutional portals and parallel developments. Available in PDF only.
025.02 Internet,
Interoperability and Standards Filling the Gaps
The main focus of standardisation in the library arena has moved
from that of supporting efficiency to allowing library users to access
external resources and facilitating remote access to library resources.
The potential of full interoperability in the field is examined along
with its likely impact. Some of the gaps in current standards are
examined, with a focus on information retrieval.
025.0 Layered
Data View for Searching, Browsing, and Presenting Scholarly
Documents
Paper discussing suitable text formats for searching, browsing, and
presenting scholarly documents as a digital library service. Printed
document sources and electronic text are considered.
021.6 Libraries
and the Internet: Electronic Text Collection
Collection of texts relevant to the subject of libraries facing the
challenge of networked information. Contributions in English, German and
Nordic languages.
025.0 National
Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology
Education
Article discussing the potential for a US national digital library
for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education.
025.0 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.
025.0 Realizing
the Hybrid Library
Article outlining a number of eLib projects which are investigating
ways in which the concept of the hybrid library can be implemented. It
discusses each of these projects in turn, and looks at the key
technological and managerial issues emerging from these projects.
025.0 Selecting
Research Collections for Digitisation
Report proposing a procedure for assessing the suitability of
research collections to undergo digitisation. Addresses issues such as
intellectual ownership and physical nature of the source materials,
number of current users, format, resource description, archiving, and
delivery. Also discusses the relationship of the project to other
digitisation activities, and weighs up associated costs against
potential benefits.
025.0 Technical
Aspects of Next Generation Digital Library Project
Conference paper (1997) discussing the technical features required
for the development of a digital library. These include appropriate
system architecture, individual technologies such as search and
retrieval technology, and an integration technology.
025.0 Towards
a General Theory of the Digital Library
Article covering various aspects of digital libraries including
definition and theory, characteristics, funding, authority, censorship
and libraries as publishers. The implications of digital libraries for
culture, learning, democracy, commerce, jobs and society are discussed.
