Exploring digital libraries : foundations, practice, prospects / Karen Calhoun.

By: Calhoun, Karen Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Facet publishing ; c2014. Description: xxix, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781856048200 ; 1856048209Subject(s): Digital libraries | Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resourcesDDC classification: 025.00285 LOC classification: ZA4080 | .C47 2004Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Emergence and definitions of digital libraries -- Outcomes of digital libraries' first decade -- Key themes and challenges in digital libraries -- Digital library collections : repositories -- Hybrid libraries -- Social roles of digital libraries -- Digital libraries and their communities -- The prospects of open access repositories -- Digital libraries and the social web : scholarship -- Digital libraries and the social web : collections and platforms.

Summary: Summary: "Exploring Digital Libraries is a highly readable, thought-provoking authorative and in-depth treatment of the digital library arena that provides an up-to-date overview of the progress, nature and future impact of digital libraries, from their collections and technology-centered foundations over two decades ago to their emergent, community-centered engagement with the social web."--pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

TOC Emergence and definitions of digital libraries --
Outcomes of digital libraries' first decade --
Key themes and challenges in digital libraries --
Digital library collections : repositories --
Hybrid libraries --
Social roles of digital libraries --
Digital libraries and their communities --
The prospects of open access repositories --
Digital libraries and the social web : scholarship --
Digital libraries and the social web : collections and platforms.

Summary:
"Exploring Digital Libraries is a highly readable, thought-provoking authorative and in-depth treatment of the digital library arena that provides an up-to-date overview of the progress, nature and future impact of digital libraries, from their collections and technology-centered foundations over two decades ago to their emergent, community-centered engagement with the social web."--pub. desc.

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