Matusiak / Xie Discover Digital Libraries

Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-12-420105-7
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice is an ideal reference during a time when the emergence of digital libraries has provided users with an unprecedented opportunity for wider and easier access to a variety of information resources for both personal and scholarly use.

This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and tools for each component of digital library development, including discussions of the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries and the application of social media. In addition, the book provides further information on new formats, standards, technologies, best practices, and the evolving concepts of digital library design, evaluation, preservation, and digital curation in books.

Users will find current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components, including collection, digitalization, organization, design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation of digital libraries.



- Offers an overview of digital libraries and the conceptual and practical understanding of digital libraries
- Presents approaches and tools for each component of digital library development
- Discusses the sustainability, retrieval, services, and evaluation of digital libraries
- Highlights the impact, challenges, and trends of present and future development of digital libraries
- Synthesizes current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matusiak, Krystyna

Xie, Iris

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken Information Retrieval
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften EDV Systeme, Internet und elektronische Ressourcen in Bibliotheken

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction to digital libraries

Chapter 2 Digital library initiatives and international projects

Chapter 3 Collection development

Chapter 4 Techniques and technologies for multimedia storage and retrieval

Chapter 5 Digitization

Chapter 6 Knowledge representation and organization

Chapter 7 Digital Library Content Management Systems

Chapter 8 Interface design and evaluation

Chapter 9 Sustainability and preservation

Chapter 10 User needs and information retrieval

Chapter 11 Evaluation of digital libraries

Chapter 12 Impact, challenges, and trends for the future

Über Autor(innen)

Matusiak, Krystyna
Dr. Matusiak combines practical experience in building digital collections with research interests in use and evaluation of digital libraries. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor at the University of Denver where she teaches classes on digitization in the Library and Information Science program. Prior to that, she worked as the Head of the Digitization Unit at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she planned and designed over 20 distinct digital collections. She also served as a digitization consultant for projects funded by the Endangered Archive Programme at the British Library and assisted digital library projects at the Press Institute of Mongolia in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia and the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in East Jerusalem. In conjunction with those projects, she published two papers on using digitization as a preservation strategy in developing countries. Information seeking and use of digital libraries, especially of digital image collections represents a major area of her research. She has published a number of articles on this topic and presented at national and international professional conferences. She is the recipient of the 2009 ACRL Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.