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E-Publishing and Digital Libraries: Legal and Organizational Issues provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational and legal issues concerning digital libraries. It includes 24 contributions from world-renowned specialists in digital libraries. This premier reference source is a must-have for researchers and professionals in the field of ICTs and its various disciplines, including library, education, computer science and management, as well as experts in the field of law. ... Read more

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Jia Liu tackles the unruly world of metadata development and implementation through a state-of-the-art overview of major theoretical issues and exemplary practices. Part one of her book elaborates on the general and latest knowledge about metadata and its implementations. Part two discusses an international array of metadata-related practices, projects and applications in the digital library.

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Exhorbitant Pricing
I am adding this book to my list of excessively expensive books.I only list those books I would havb bought had the price been reasonable.It cost the publisher less than $5.00 to print this book.Amazon pays 45% of the retail price, so call it a $25 return.That is too much and completely contrary to the desperate need for making it easier for information to be shared.

I urge all authors to post free online copies of their work and to retain original copyright as we do at OSS.Net and Earth Intelligence Network. ... Read more

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Brings together a wealth of international experience in the planning and implementation of digital and hybrid library projects, providing a stimulating and informative handbook and reference for library staff and information managers. ... Read more

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Analyzes resources for the digital library; investments in staff with regard to hiring, training, and mentoring, teams and teamwork; and project management and implementation. Discusses the importance of input and feedback from digital library users. ... Read more

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Is your library squeezing every dollar's-worth out of that expensive database? Should you renew your subscription to that pricey e-journal? Are your indexes serving your users? The questions keep getting tougher. The answers have seemed illusive - until now! In this user-friendly guide, White and Kamal show you how to utilize e-metrics to measure library performance and value in the digital age. You will learn how to effectively use the electronic data captured from various network activities to manage library collections, budgets, and services. Using e-metrics, the authors show you how to identify: Underused digital resources; Strategies for better collection management and development, and Virtual patron behavior patterns. They offer real-world examples to demonstrate how to develop a locally-established library e-metric system and apply it with vendor usage statistics to critical collection management and financial decisions. Includes more than 100 forms, charts, and graphs you can model for assessing your own collection s use. ... Read more

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Get informed answers to your questions and concerns about integrating the materials in your library’s collection

Library collections have always included materials in many formats—handling a mix of material types is an accepted part of library work. And in recent years, the very concept of “collection” has been significantly redefined by the addition of electronic resources. But are print and digital materials really merged in library collections or are they treated and maintained as separate entities? Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections examines a variety of collection management issues, combining practical theory, research findings, “how-to” articles, and opinion pieces to encourage efforts in establishing fully integrated and accessible collections.

While achieving a truly integrated collection can be difficult, the failure to do so can lead to duplication of access, effort, and expense. Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections can help guide you through the difficult aspects of keeping your collection up-to-date, including the “Big Deal” and consortial purchasing, shifting the emphasis from purchasing print to procuring online resources for library reference work, analyzing use patterns of electronic versus hard copy resources, serials workflow studies, and review projects.

Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections examines:

• the implications of electronic resource licenses
  
• future directions of academic reference collections
  
• technologies that can help integrate electronic resources into reference collections
  
• the “Big Deal”—the purchase of access to large aggregations of materials in electronic formats
  
• integrating electronic resources into the collections of ARL libraries
  
• a corporate library’s progression to an all-digital collection
  
• how to decide what can—and can’t—be digitized
  
• how large e-book collections affect the circulation of comparable print collections
  
• and much more!

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Libraries have always been an inspiration for the standards and technologies developed by semantic web activities. However, except for the Dublin Core specification, semantic web and social networking technologies have not been widely adopted and further developed by major digital library initiatives and projects. Yet semantic technologies offer a new level of flexibility, interoperability, and relationships for digital repositories.

Kruk and McDaniel present semantic web-related aspects of current digital library activities, and introduce their functionality; they show examples ranging from general architectural descriptions to detailed usages of specific ontologies, and thus stimulate the awareness of researchers, engineers, and potential users of those technologies. Their presentation is completed by chapters on existing prototype systems such as JeromeDL, BRICKS, and Greenstone, as well as a look into the possible future of semantic digital libraries.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in areas like digital libraries, the semantic web, social networks, and information retrieval. This audience will benefit from detailed descriptions of both today’s possibilities and also the shortcomings of applying semantic web technologies to large digital repositories of often unstructured data.

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This authoritative source explores the economic considerations involved in developing and managing digital libraries. With contributions from leading international experts in the field, the book provides an introduction to the history of digital library economics, and addresses, key themes, publishing implications and management concepts. There is coverage of e-books, e-journals, copyright, retro-conversion and document supply, advice for making cost-effective decisions in collection building, and guided insight into future developments in the digital library economics. ... Read more

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The convergence of IT, telecommunications, and media is bringing about a revolution in the way information is collected, stored and accessed. There are three principal reasons why this is happening reducing cost, increasing quality, and increasing bandwidth. Moore s Law results in ever-decreasing costs of processing, storage, and transmission. Digital information preserves content accuracy (e.g. digital television) in a way other systems do not. High bandwidth transmission from one place to another on the planet is now possible. Information is ubiquitous and globally accessible, and can be held and accessed just as easily on a global network as on a local personal computer or in a local library. Devices are increasingly intelligent and are network-ready. User interfaces are becoming more adaptable and flexible, and can be tailored to particular application domains. Digital intelligence is becoming seamless and invisible, enabling more attention to be paid to the content and the user s interaction with it. This revolution is having effects on the development and organisation of information and artefact repositories such as libraries, museums, and exhibitions, and the way in which physical and digital aspects are mediated to users. The changes that digital convergence is bringing about are substantial and are also likely to be long-lasting. This volume presents key aspects in this rapidly moving field in the areas of technology and information sciences - from international experts who are leaders in their fields.

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As prices of traditional library materials increase, and space to house them shrinks, savvy school library media specialists are creating cyber libraries, or school libraries on the Internet. These libraries offer students and their parents 24-hour access and are invaluable for providing up-to-date information in a way traditional materials cannot. This guide outlines the steps library media specialists can take to create a cyber library, provide content and policies for use, and maintain it for maximum efficiency. ... Read more

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A comprehensive, "user friendly" and highly recommended text
Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional Guide For School Library Media Specialists by Kathleen W. Craver (Head Librarian, National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C.) is the latest title in the outstanding "Libraries Unlimited Professional Guides in School Librarianship" series. Creating Cyber Libraries is organized into ten major sections: Cyber Library Guidelines; Cyber Library Policies; Constructing Web Libraries; Using Portals; Acquiring Fee-based Cyber Libraries; Establishing Remote Access To Subscription Resources; Creating Cyber Reading Rooms; Providing Cyber Library Instructional Services; Managing Evaluating Cyber Libraries; and Promoting Cyber Libraries. Enhanced with a six-page bibliography, a twelve-page "Links Citation List", and an extensive index, Creating Cyber Libraries is a comprehensive, "user friendly", and highly recommended text for library staff members charged with the responsibility for developing, expanding, maintaining, and updating a cyber library with its attendent and evolving technology, as well as an essential, core addition to any academic Library Science reference shelf. ... Read more

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An international cadre of leading thinkers and experimenters provide their considered opinions concerning the influence of digital technology on teaching and learning in general, and the role of the library in the educational enterprise in particular. Topic treatments include envisioning the future, facing major challenges, creating projects and programs, and developing digital libraries. A must-read for anyone involved in higher education.

The Kanazawa Institute of Technology is Japan's largest institution of higher education specializing in engineering and technology. It is a world leader and collaborator in electronic initiatives, often on the forefront of systems design and telecommunications advancement. It is also the site of an annual symposium series on digital library development. Marcum and George have pulled together an international cadre of leading thinkers and experimenters, all of whom have participated in these symposia, to provide their considered opinions concerning the influence of digital technology on teaching and learning in general, and the role of the library in the educational enterprise in particular. Their contributions have, in turn, been arranged into four thematic groupings, which range from envisioning the future, and facing major challenges, to creating projects and programs, and developing digital libraries. An informative read for anyone involved in higher education.

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A digital library is not merely a collection of electronic information. It is an organized and digitized system of data that can serve as a rich resource for its user community. This authoritative and accessible guide for librarians and computer scientists explores the technologies behind digital libraries, the choices to be made in building them, and the economic and policy structures that affect them.

The most comprehensive book on the subject, Practical Digital Libraries
* offers the most wide-ranging overview of digital libraries currently available
* analyzes economic and intellectual issues in the emerging digital environment
* shows how text, images, audio, and video can be represented, distributed, used, and collected as forms of knowledge ... Read more

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Excellent overview - but technical
This book is one of the most thorough discussions on the ins and outs of digital libraries I've ever seen.Lesk knows his stuff, both on the library - classification - document side and on the computer - technology side.Unfortunately, the reader also needs to be conversant with both sides, especially the technical.I feel the book is sometimes too heavily tilted toward the engineering/technology side.Kudos to Lesk, however, for his discussions of the economics of information, intellectual property, and international activities.

A really good book, but quite technical
This is a very informative, well-balanced book on digital libraries.Lesk considers both the pros and cons of electronic versus print-only libraries, and provides detailed descriptions of how to digitize and distribute avariety of content - text, images, audio, video, etc.He also giveshistorical and philosophical background on issues concerning digitallibraries.The only problem I had was that some parts were too technicalfor me to understand.This may be because I'm just starting out in thefield, and the book may be more accessible to those with more experience. However, I think the addition of a glossary to the book would help quite abit.Overall, I found the book educational and enjoyable, and I recommendit highly. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008, held in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2008.

The 30 revised full papers, 20 revised short papers, and extended abstracts of 13 poster papers carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The paper topics cover the spectrum of digital libraries, including multimedia digital libraries, usability and evaluation, information retrieval, ontologies, social tagging, metadata issues, multi- and cross-language retrieval, digital preservation, and scholarly publishing and commmunities.

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Get an inside view of producing digital information projects

Digital technology has provided great opportunities as well as colossal challenges for information professionals at Slavic libraries, collections, and archives. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives presents leading information experts exploring the monumental task of converting Slavic manuscripts and books for presentation in the digital realm. Readers get a clear inside view of how to conquer the various challenges that arise within digital library and archive projects through detailed descriptions of specific projects discussed in easy-to-understand language.

Slavic studies present innate problems when attempts are made to allow access to the material over the Internet. The Cyrillic alphabet is just one of the huge stumbling blocks standing in the way of universal access to this important material. Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives provides practical strategies for anyone looking for answers to problems within their own virtual information project. Copyright issues, digital reference, text encoding, online translation, presentation issues, and use of grant funding are some the topics comprehensively discussed to give information professionals clear solutions to the issues they may be facing. The book is carefully referenced.

Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives examines:

the persistence of multiple standards for digitally handling the Cyrillic alphabet

presenting the Comintern archives online

FEB-web—its structure, the creation of digital editions, its plans for the future

copyright issues in the twenty-first century

Meeting of Frontiers—the reorganization of the text content of the international collaborative digital library project at the Library of Congress

standardized encoding

practical and theoretical programming issues

the unforeseen difficulties—and solutions—to complete a grant-funded digital Slavic project

and more

Virtual Slavica: Digital Libraries, Digital Archives is of keen interest to librarians, archivists, Slavic studies academics, and library and information science educators and students. ... Read more

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The organization, functioning, and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically. While academic research libraries continue to acquire information, organize it, make it available, and preserve it, the critical issues for their management teams in the twenty-first century are to formulate a clear mission and role for their library, particularly as libraries transition to meet the new information needs of their university constituents. Building a Virtual Library addresses these issues by providing insight into the current changes and developments within the area of library science. ... Read more

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LittleSpaceBetweenWords
The content of this book is very good, but make certain your eyes can handle the strain of reading it.For some reason the font was tinkered with to eliminate most of the space between the words.Buyer beware!Prepare for eye-strain headaches while you're reading this book.It's bad enough to make an otherwise 5-star book into a 2-star book.

Shame on the publisher, or perhaps on the content providers who couldn't stand to trim a few sentences here and there in order to make the book readable. ... Read more

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Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America's leading library administrators on ways to effectively manage digital flow and offers strategies to provide a level of coexistence between digital and print information. This excellent overview explores how to best balance print and electronic resources, and explores important issues such as the selection of electronic resources, improving access to digital information for a larger user base, and effective management of a library's fiscal and personnel resources. ... Read more