Exploring Digital Libraries

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