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Exploring Digital Libraries : Foundations, Practice, Prospects.
A landmark textbook on digital libraries for LIS students, educators and practising information professionals throughout the world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Facet Publishing,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; CHAPTER 1 Emergence and definitions of digital libraries; Overview; The emergence of digital libraries (1991-2001); Early digital library projects; Definitions of digital libraries; Conclusion; CHAPTER 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.
- CHAPTER 6 Social roles of digital librariesOverview; Introduction; Foundations of digital libraries' social roles; A possible framework of social roles; Conclusion; CHAPTER 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; CHAPTER 8 The prospects of open access repositories; Overview.
- Successful subject-based repositoriesThe value of institutional repositories; The policy and legal frameworks; Deposit mandates; Other issues with self-archiving; 'Google has won'; Making institutional repositories more valuable; The future of repositories; Conclusion; CHAPTER 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 webConclusion; CHAPTER 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; References; Index.