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Building a Virtual Library

Author : Ardis Hanson
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1591401062

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The organization, functioning and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically. This volume addresses the issue by providing insight into the current changes and developments within the area of library science.

How to Build a Digital Library

Author : Ian H. Witten
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080890393

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How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose. A resource for individuals, agencies, and institutions wishing to put this powerful tool to work in their burgeoning information treasuries. The Second Edition reflects developments in the field as well as in the Greenstone Digital Library open source software. In Part I, the authors have added an entire new chapter on user groups, user support, collaborative browsing, user contributions, and so on. There is also new material on content-based queries, map-based queries, cross-media queries. There is an increased emphasis placed on multimedia by adding a "digitizing" section to each major media type. A new chapter has also been added on "internationalization," which will address Unicode standards, multi-language interfaces and collections, and issues with non-European languages (Chinese, Hindi, etc.). Part II, the software tools section, has been completely rewritten to reflect the new developments in Greenstone Digital Library Software, an internationally popular open source software tool with a comprehensive graphical facility for creating and maintaining digital libraries. Outlines the history of libraries on both traditional and digital Written for both technical and non-technical audiences and covers the entire spectrum of media, including text, images, audio, video, and related XML standards Web-enhanced with software documentation, color illustrations, full-text index, source code, and more

Creating a Virtual Library

Author : Frederick J. Stielow
Publisher : Neal-Schuman Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN :

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Provides clear instructions for mounting a relatively advanced virtual library within a short period of time, for low costs, and even with an initially under trained staff.

Building Digital Libraries

Author : Kyle Banerjee
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838917143

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This book will thoroughly orient LIS students and others new to the world of digital libraries, and also ensure that current professionals have the knowledge and guidance necessary to construct a digital repository from its inception.

How to Build a Digital Library

Author : Ian H. Witten
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2002-07
Category :
ISBN : 9780613915830

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While there are several books devoted to specific issues relating to digital libraries, "How to Build a Digital Library" is the only one to equip readers with all the knowledge and the tools they need to construct and maintain one. Designed for a diverse audience, the methodology is supported by a wide range of examples and can be adapted to any size project.

Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries

Author : Lori Bell
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781573873611

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"Virtual Worlds, Real Libraries is designed to help librarians and educators recognize the potential of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) and consider ways to get involved as they proliferate. Lori Bell, Rhonda B. Trueman, and 24 contributors describe innovative projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, and demonstrate how reference, teaching, collections, discussion groups, young adult programs, and other services can be successfully applied in a virtual environment."--Cover.

Becoming a Digital Library

Author : Susan J. Barnes
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2003-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824757750

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This excellent reference traces the construction and maintenance of the digital collections and services that have been available day in and day out to users worldwide for more than a decade. It examines applicable guidelines for any library looking to build and manage systems, conduct and evaluate projects, and scout new directions for mainstreaming and hybridizing the building of a digital library. Including contributions from seasoned experts in specializations such as staffing, collection development, and technology project management for digital libraries, Becoming a Digital Library discusses the techniques for finding and training the right people to build a digital library.

Issues in Building Virtual Libraries

Author : Andrew Goodchild
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Digital libraries
ISBN :

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Abstract: "This report provides a framework that defines the characteristics of a usable virtual library. The framework was built because there is a lack of consideration of cognitive engineering issues in existing resource discovery research. When the framework was applied to existing virtual libraries it was found that the majority of them failed to meet all of the usability criteria. As a result there is much space for improvement in the development of virtual libraries. The results contained in this report provides useful food for thought for any practitioner setting out to build a resource discovery tool."

Collection Development

Author : Maureen Pastine
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780789003850

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A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access. Its sophisticated analyses offer you clarity of vision, the wisdom of experience, and solid advice as you are transported into the `virtual library environment’with its variety of expectations, service complexities, and information technologies. Interested in reducing local collecting costs while expanding the universe of information and knowledge available to your primary clientele? Collection Development will show you just how many options are out there for enhancing your virtual environment, as it explores: teaching your users advancing bibliographical retrieval and assessment methodologies the delivery of library resources electronically for distributed learning/distance education conducting CD-Rom collection development comparisons planning space for a more technologically oriented research environment enriching your on-line catalog with contents pages and new indexing capabilities the impact of change and shifting paradigms on public services staffing the development of good electronic presentation design Still not convinced that this is the book you need to improve access in your library? Think again! Collection Development will help you with library control and ordering articles via commercial document delivery; it will help you develop coherent and intuitive ways of organizing and presenting available electronic resources; it will help you work with administrators and funding agents to attain a balance between traditional library resources and emerging information technologies, and much, much more!

Reinventing the Library for Online Education

Author : Frederick Stielow
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0838912087

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Have changes such as cloud computing, search engines, the Semantic Web, and mobile applications rendered such long-standing academic library services and functions as special collections, interlibrary loans, physical processing, and even library buildings unnecessary? Can the academic library effectively reconceive itself as a virtual institution? Stielow, who led the library program of the online university American Public University System, argues most emphatically that it can. His comprehensive look at web-based academic libraries synthesizes the changes wrought by the Web revolution into a visionary new model, grounded in history as well as personal experience. He demonstrates how existing functions like cataloging, circulation, collection development, reference, and serials management can be transformed by entrepreneurship, human face/electronic communicator relations, web apps, and other innovations. Online education can ensure that libraries remain strong information and knowledge hubs, and his timely book Shows how the origins and history of the academic library have laid the foundation for our current period of flux Identifies practices rooted in print-based storage to consider for elimination, and legacy services ready to be adapted to virtual operations Discusses tools and concepts libraries will embrace in a networked world, including new opportunities for library relevance in bookstore/textbook operations, compliance, library/archival/museum functions, e-publishing, and tutorial services Offers a thorough examination of the virtual library infrastructure crucial for an online learning program, with a special look at the particular needs and responsibilities of online librarians Looks at the evolving relationship between higher education and copyright, and posits how educational technology will bring further changes Bursting with stimulating ideas and wisdom gleaned from first-hand experience, Stielow’s book presents a model for offering outstanding higher education library services in an increasingly online environment.