Digital libraries : policy, planning and practice / edited by Judith Andrews, Derek Law.
Material type: TextPublication details: Aldershot : Ashgate, c2004.Description: xx, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780754634485 (hbk.) :
- 0754634485
- 025.00285 AND
- ZA4080 .D543 2004
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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.