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Digital libraries : policy, planning and practice / edited by Judith Andrews, Derek Law.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Aldershot : Ashgate, c2004.Description: xx, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780754634485 (hbk.) :
  • 0754634485
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 025.00285 AND
LOC classification:
  • ZA4080 .D543 2004
Incomplete contents:
1.Introduction -- 2.United States federal support for digital library research and its impliacations for digital library development -- 3.eLib in retrospect: a national strategy for digital library development in the 1990s -- Part 1: Policy and planning -- 4.How to pay for digital libraries -- 5.Content and service issues for digital librarie -- 6.Open access to peer-review research through author/institution self-archiving: maximizing research impact by maximizing online access -- 7.Issues of policy and pracitce in digital preservation -- 8.Evaluating electronic information services -- Part 2.: Implementation and practice -- 9.Building a digital library in 80 days: The Glasgow experience -- 10.The development of UCEEL: a digital library for the University of Central England -- 11.Networked digital library of theses and dissertations (NDLTD) -- 12.The variations and variations2 digital music library projects at Indiana University -- 13.Beyond bricks and mortar: building a digital library program at the Library of Congress -- Part 3: The way ahead -- 14.After the digital library decade: where are the next frontiers for library innovation.
Summary: In an overview of digital library development the contributors to this edited collection emphasise a number of issues relating to policy and practice in a wide range of areas. They show how research has been developed for application in the workplace and how rapidly we have arrived at the current position.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 025.00285 AND (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 201435

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-253) and index.

1.Introduction -- 2.United States federal support for digital library research and its impliacations for digital library development -- 3.eLib in retrospect: a national strategy for digital library development in the 1990s -- Part 1: Policy and planning -- 4.How to pay for digital libraries -- 5.Content and service issues for digital librarie -- 6.Open access to peer-review research through author/institution self-archiving: maximizing research impact by maximizing online access -- 7.Issues of policy and pracitce in digital preservation -- 8.Evaluating electronic information services -- Part 2.: Implementation and practice -- 9.Building a digital library in 80 days: The Glasgow experience -- 10.The development of UCEEL: a digital library for the University of Central England -- 11.Networked digital library of theses and dissertations (NDLTD) -- 12.The variations and variations2 digital music library projects at Indiana University -- 13.Beyond bricks and mortar: building a digital library program at the Library of Congress -- Part 3: The way ahead -- 14.After the digital library decade: where are the next frontiers for library innovation.

In an overview of digital library development the contributors to this edited collection emphasise a number of issues relating to policy and practice in a wide range of areas. They show how research has been developed for application in the workplace and how rapidly we have arrived at the current position.

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