Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures and Tables
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • PART I Perspectives on the Library in the Twenty- First Century
  • CHAPTER 1 Scholarship, Information, and Libraries in the Electronic Age STANLEY CHODOROW
  • CHAPTER 2 The Impact of Information Technologies on the Role of Research Libraries in Teaching and Learning in the United States ELAINE SLOAN
  • CHAPTER 3 The Life of the Mind in a World Transformed by Networks and Digital Libraries PAUL EVAN PETERS
  • CHAPTER 4 What's Happening to the Book? RICHARD A. LANHAM.
  • CHAPTER 5 The Impact of Digital Technology on Libraries: A Chaotic Revolution JERRY D. CAMPBELL
  • CHAPTER 6 The Future Value of Digital Information and Digital Libraries MICHAEL LESK
  • PART II Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Library
  • CHAPTER 7 The Library as Provider of Digital Resources for Teaching and Scholarship ANN J. WOLPERT
  • CHAPTER 8 Can We Afford Digital Information? Libraries? An Early Assessment of Economic Prospects for Digital Publications ANN B. OKERSON
  • CHAPTER 9 Intellectual Property Policy for an Information Society PETER LYMAN.
  • CHAPTER 10 The Uses of DigitalLibraries: Some Technological, Political, and Economic Considerations DONALD J. WATERS
  • CHAPTER 11 Digital Preservation: An Update DEANNA B. MARCUM
  • CHAPTER 12 The Impact of Digital Libraries on Library Staffing and Education RACHAEL K. ANDERSON
  • CHAPTER 13 Government Records in a Digital World PETER B. HIRTLE
  • CHAPTER 14 A View on the Ecology of Information BRIAN L. HAWKINS
  • PART III The Digital Library in the Service of Research and Education: Some Experiences.
  • CHAPTER 15 The Library of Congress's National Digital Library: Reaching Out to Schools and Libraries through the Internet LAURA CAMPBELL
  • CHAPTER 16 Toward Libraries' Digital Future: The Canadian Digital Library Experience LEIGH SWAIN AND SUSAN HAIGH
  • CHAPTER 17 The Future of Libraries and Library Schools DANIEL E. ATKINS
  • CHAPTER 18 Redefining the University through Educational and Information Technologies: North Carolina State University, Its Libraries, and Distance Education SUSAN K. NUTTER
  • CHAPTER 19 Re- engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum JACK M. WILSON.
  • CHAPTER 20 The Internet Public Library: Development and Future JOSEPH W. JANES
  • CHAPTER 21 Public Libraries in the United States: Service to Business and Industry BEVERLY P. LYNCH
  • CHAPTER 22 Prognosis on Becoming Digital: Digital Information, Global Networks, and Business Education WILLIAM D. WALKER
  • Index
  • About the Contributors.