Exploring Digital Libraries
Description
A landmark textbook on digital libraries for LIS students, educators and practising information professionals throughout the world.
Exploring Digital Libraries is a highly readable, thought-provoking authorative and in-depth treatment of the digital library arena that provides an up-to-date overview of the progress, nature and future impact of digital libraries, from their collections and technology-centred foundations over two decades ago to their emergent, community-centred engagement with the social web.
This essential textbook:
- Brings students and working librarians up to date on the progress, nature and impact of digital libraries, bridging the gap since the publication of the best-known digital library texts
- Frames digital library research and practice in the context of the social web and makes the case for moving beyond collections to a new emphasis on libraries' value to their communities
- Introduces several new frameworks and novel syntheses that elucidate digital library themes, suggest strategic directions, and break new ground in the digital library literature.
- Calls a good deal of attention to digital library research, but is written from the perspective of strategy and in-depth experience
- Provides a global perspective and integrates material from many sources in one place - the chapters on open repositories and hybrid libraries draw together past, present and prospective work in a way that is unique in the literature.
Readership: Exploring Digital Libraries suits the needs of a range of readers, from working librarians and library leaders to LIS students and educators, or anyone who wants a highly readable and thought-provoking overview of the field and its importance to the future of libraries.
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Karen Calhoun B.A., M.S., M.B.A. is an internationally respected librarian and change leader who is currently at the University of Pittsburgh helping to develop community-centred services. She is an active researcher, writer, speaker and consultant on digital libraries and related disciplines and has just completed a celebrated tenure at OCLC.
Content
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
