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D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Mitchell & Gilbertson |
Using Open Source Social Software as Digital Library Interface This article investigates the use of social software applications in digital library environments, and examines the use of blogging software as an interface to digital library content stored in a separate repository.   |
D-Lib
February 2008
Ian G. Anderson |
Necessary but Not Sufficient: Modelling Online Archive Development in the UK The process of archive development is hampered by the lack of a template for identifying and evaluating online archive information and services or a model for understanding their development. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2010
Xihui Zhen |
Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2014
DeRidder & Matheny |
What Do Researchers Need? Feedback On Use of Online Primary Source Materials A qualitative study of 11 humanities faculty researchers at the University of Alabama, describes and rates the importance of various issues encountered when using 29 participant-selected online databases. |
D-Lib
April 2007 |
Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries now envisions a Digital Library as a tool at the center of intellectual activity having no logical, conceptual, physical, temporal, or personal borders or barriers to information. |
Information Today
November 8, 2010
Barbie E. Keiser |
Some Progress But Not Enough: GAO Issues Update on the EPA Library Network When reading the GAO report released on Nov. 1, it's important to distinguish between indictments of the Agency and the work it was supposed to do from the progress that the library network has made. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
Mitchell & Suchy |
Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections The latest challenge for libraries and museums is to adapt and grow our digital collections to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile user. |
D-Lib
March 2001 |
In Brief Award to Penn State University Libraries to support an extensive study of digital image delivery... Digitization of Printed Material: The METAe Project... The Special Collections Virtual Reading Room... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2005
Leslie Johnston |
Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository Internal design review of the interface of the Digital Library Repository and it's usability in classrooms and by faculty and staff. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2011 |
In Brief and In the News A new step toward digital library foundations... Scholarly reading and the value of library resources... Reposit: positing a new kind of repository deposit... |
D-Lib
December 2008 |
To the Editor (November/December 2008) A letter to the editor concerning the use of WordPress vs. Flickr |
Searcher
May 2002
David Mattison |
Images of History on the Web While one can use image search engines to retrieve historical photographs, the lack of precision caused by keyword searching and the limitations of the general search engines to target historic photographs lead to wasted time and effort. Other search strategies are described here... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011
Gerolimos & Konsta |
Services for Academic Libraries in the New Era The aim of this paper is twofold. The primary focus is to research and document the integration of services based on the web into the framework of academic libraries. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
December 2008
Rich Gazan |
Social Annotations in Digital Library Collections In order to incorporate Web 2.0 functionality effectively, digital libraries must fundamentally recast users not just as content consumers, but as content creators. |
Information Today
February 12, 2007
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
D-Lib
May 2004
Michael F. Goodchild |
The Alexandria Digital Library Project: Review, Assessment, and Prospects Why the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) was established, how it progressed, and how the vision of ADL continues to evolve. |
D-Lib
September 2005 |
In Brief Current Cites: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been... User Needs and Potential Users of Public Repositories: An Integrated Analysis... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2006
Paul Miller |
Coming Together Around Library 2.0: A Focus for Discussion and a Call to Arms To achieve the vision of Library 2.0, in which libraries become ever more relevant as visible and accessible providers of valuable content and context, many of the models in evidence today will require dramatic change. |
D-Lib
October 2001
Brewster Kahle |
Public Access to Digital Material The goal of universal access to our cultural heritage is within our grasp. With current digital technology we can build comprehensive collections, and with digital networks we can make these available to students and scholars all over the world... |
D-Lib
October 2002
Fox et al. |
Toward a Global Digital Library: Generalizing US-Korea Collaboration on Digital Libraries A report on recommendations to remove barriers to worldwide development of digital libraries, drawing upon an August 2000 workshop involving researchers from the US and Korea who met at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
Information Today
July 23, 2007
Barbara Quint |
Open Library Launches with Library as Wiki Service If we all -- librarians, readers, writers, publishers, etc. -- pulled together, could we create an online library that included every book, every journal, every instance of every type of content a traditional library might contain? |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010 |
D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2005
Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
In Brief Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries... Project ANGEL: Guidance and Guardianship for Networked UK Learners... The City of Los Angeles Spatial Index is Now Available on the Internet... Caltech Registers Two Repositories with the Open Archives Initiative... etc. |
D-Lib
January 2006
Martin Kalfatovic |
Galaxy of Knowledge: Art & Design Galaxy of Knowledge, is Smithsonian Institution Libraries' portal to its collections and to a wide array of exceptional Internet resources. |
D-Lib
February 2008
Betsy Kruger |
Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The largest publicly funded university library in the country has long been engaged in state, national, and international efforts to make its resources accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
D-Lib
June 2000
Diane Nester Kresh |
Offering High Quality Reference Service on the Web Today's researchers need to find quickly information that is usable, relevant, authoritative and verifiable. To meet that need, libraries must adapt our traditional strengths of acquiring, describing, and serving information to an environment that is not bound by time or physical place... |
D-Lib
June 2008
Susan Schreibman |
D-Lib Featured Collection May/June 2008: University of Maryland Libraries Digital Collections In November 2007 University of Maryland Libraries announced its digital collections portal. |
Information Today
June 27, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training. |
Searcher
January 2004
Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2009 |
In Brief Contributors offer updates on various digital library research and initiatives. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2004 |
In Brief ALVIS - Superpeer Semantic Search Engine... Invitation to Participate in the Validation Test for the Xtensible Past Project... The Electronic Records Management Training Package... In the News... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Branin et al. |
In Brief LIS Editors Launch Effort to Develop Best Practices for LIS Journals... Carolina Digital Library and Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill... Help us make HILT's terminology services useful in your information service... etc. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014 |
In Brief and In the News Higher education, library groups release Net Neutrality Principles... ALA applauds Congress for passing the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act... Finalists announced for the Digital Preservation Awards 2014... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Michalis Gerolimos |
Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users' Comments This paper examines users' comments on the Facebook pages of 20 American academic libraries and subdivides them into 22 categories. |
D-Lib
February 2007
Coyle & Hillmann |
Resource Description and Access (RDA): Cataloging Rules for the 20th Century A rearrangement of the cataloging rules is not the right starting point for libraries. The library catalog has undergone considerable change from a simple finding list to an integrated database that serves both library management and user access functions. |
D-Lib
June 2004
Norbert Lossau |
Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet If libraries do not want to become marginalized in a key area of their traditional services, they need to acknowledge the challenges that come with the globalization of scholarly information, the existence and further growth of the academic internet . |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
In Brief HERON: Project into Service... CNRI Explores Maintenance of and Long-term Access to Computer Science Collections... LEAF - Linking and Exploring Authority Files... TermMaster: Software for Creating and Maintaining Thesauri and Ontologies... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Lagoze et al. |
What Is a Digital Library Anyway? Beyond Search and Access in the NSDL We are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern. |
InternetNews
November 22, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines. |
Information Today
March 5, 2012
Victoria McCargar |
Viewshare: Up Close and Personal With Your Digital Treasures Back in November 2011, the Library of Congress blogged about a new online service called Viewshare, a web domain where cultural heritage institutions can show off their digital treasures free of charge. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
Information Today
February 2, 2012 |
Infotrieve Launches New Features for Mobile Library Infotrieve, Inc. announced a new release of its cloud-based Mobile Library, updated with an improved search function, additional features for Personal & Shared Libraries and general user interface enhancements. |
D-Lib
February 2001
Manfred Thaller |
From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one... |
D-Lib
Ben Lund |
Connotea: A Free Online Reference Management Service for Scientists Connotea is a free online reference management service for scientists created by Nature Publishing Group. Connotea enables you to store your reference list online which means that it's readily accessible, it's linked directly into the literature and it's easily shared with colleagues. |
D-Lib
February 2006 |
A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2002
Holly K. Grossetta Nardini |
Lessons for Librarians Working with Web Designers While working with a graphic design firm was successful and produced more attractive results than we could have achieved ourselves, it also presented challenges. The lessons we learned provide helpful guidance for other organizations that consider outsourcing Web design work... |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Report to the President on Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge... Report on the NISO Workshop on Networked Digital Reference Services... National Library of Australia Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan... etc. |
