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Development of Digital Libraries An American Perspective
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Deanna B. Marcum, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31478-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31478-0
368 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/2001
List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £82.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Every year, leading librarians, scholars, and administrators from the United States are invited to give papers on important library-related topics at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology's Roundtable. From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic.

In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States. Insight into the policy, legal, and technical frameworks of digital libraries is given, while honest views of problems encountered in trying to integrate digital and traditional libraries are given. Finally, some of the essays explore how users are affected by digital library services.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Foreword by Kakugyo S. Chiku
    Part I: Perspectives on the Library of the Twenty-First Century
    Scholarship, Information, and Libraries in the Electronic Age by Stanley Chodorow
    The Impact of Information Technologies on the Role of the Research Libraries in Teaching and Learning in the United States by Elaine Sloan
    The Life of the Mind in a World Transformed by Networks and Digital Libraries by Paul Evan Peters
    What's Happening to the Book? by Richard A. Lanham
    The Impact of Digital Technology on Libraries: A Chaotic Revolution by Jerry D. Campbell
    The Future Value of Digital Information and Digital Libraries by Michael Lesk
    Part II: Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Library
    The Library as Provider of Digital Resources for Teaching and Scholarship by Ann J. Wolpert
    Can We Afford Digital Information? Libraries? An Early Assessment of Economic Prospects for Digital Publications by Ann S. Okerson
    Intellectual Property for an Information Society by Peter Lyman
    The Uses of Digital Libraries: Some Technological, Political, and Economic Considerations by Donald J. Waters
    Digital Preservation: An Update by Deanna B. Marcum
    Impact of Digital Libraries on Library Staffing and Education by Rachael K. Anderson
    Government Records in a Digital World by Peter B. Hirtle
    A View on the Ecology of Information by Brian L. Hawkins
    Part III: The Digital Library in the Service of Research and Education: Some Experiences
    The Library of Congress's National Digital Library: Reaching Out to Schools and Libraries through the Internet by Laura Campbell
    Toward Libraries' Digital Future: The Canadian Digital Library Experience by Leigh Swain and Susan Haigh
    The Future of Libraries and Library Schools by Daniel E. Atkins
    Redefining the University through Educational and Information Technologies: North Carolina State University, Its Libraries, and Distance Education by Susan K. Nutter
    Re-engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum by Jack M. Wilson
    The Internet Public Library: Development and Future by Joseph W. Janes
    Public Libraries in the United States: Service to Business and Industry by Beverly P. Lynch
    Prognosis on Becoming Digital: Digital Information, Global Networks, and Business Education by William D. Walker
    Index
About the Author: DEANNA B. MARCUM is President of the Council on Library and Information Resources in Washington, D.C.
LCC Class: 25
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