2002
Archiving
Electronic Publications A report of the NISO/BISG Meeting, January 20,
2002 (USA) Provides descriptions of three ongoing electronic archiving projects
that "examine cost-effective business models for archiving, explore rights
issues, and identify the needed standards".
http://www.niso.org/presentations/niso-bisg-rpt.html
Digital Division is Cultural Exclusion.
But Is Digital Inclusion Cultural Inclusion? by Karen Worcman, in D-Lib
magazine Mar 2002. Examines the implications of digitalisation on cultural
access issues. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march02/worcman/03worcman.html
Electronic books for teaching and learning
Themed issue of The Electronic Library
Volume 20, issue 4,16th August 2002: . Papers in this special issue were
selected from the track on "Electronic Books for Teaching and Learning"
part of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (SAC2002),
sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, which
was held in Madrid in March 2002. 2002 Guest
Editorial: Monica Landoni and Ignacio Aedo
NB: Abstract only. Full text requires relevant Emerald subscription..
http://oberon.emeraldinsight.com/vl=14163167/cl=18/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/02640473/v20n4/contp1-1.htm
Levels of Service for Digital Repositories
by William G LeFurgy, In: D-Lib magazine May 2002. Outlines conditions
governing persistence of digital objects, such as system architecture and
material specification, and suggests a model for future levels of service
for digital repositories, considering three levels of tools and processes
and three levels of persistence of materials.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may02/lefurgy/05lefurgy.html
What's Become of the Digital Library? (2002)
by Clifford A. Lynch. "Over the past few years we have heard a great deal
of hype and speculation about digital libraries and how they might supplant
existing library organizations in educational institutions. Reality has
proven to be much more complex..."
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EDU0207
2001
A Framework
of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections IMLS Forum Dec. 2001.
Report offering a framework for the development of good digital collections,
based on sets of principles for 4 entities: collections, objects, metadata
and projects. http://www.imls.gov/pubs/forumframework.htm Strategies for
Building Digitized Collections by Abby Smith, Sep 2001 (USA) (CLIR), Outlines
the 10 years' experience that libraries have had in digitising collection
items for online access, & offers recommendations. Available online as full
text, or PDF.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html
Building a Digital Library: With Comments
on Cooperative Grant Projects and the Goals of a Digital Library Brief
article by Elaine Peterson, Special Collections Librarian & Associate Professor
Montana State University Libraries (Spring, 2001)
http://www.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/peterson2.html
Developing Digital Libraries: Four Principles
for Higher Education (2001) by Donald Water. The principles include
creating scholarly value by exploiting the distinctive features of the technology
and being realistic about costs when distributing material and maintaining
operations.
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=ERM0158
Strategies for Building Digitized Collections
by Abby Smith, Sep. 2001 (USA) (CLIR). Outlines the 10 years' experience
that libraries have had in digitising collection items for online access,
& offers recommendations. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html
Available online as full text or PDF
The Battle to Define the Future of the
Book in the Digital World by Clifford Lynch. In: First Monday
04 Jun 2001. Clifford Lynch is the Director of the Coalition for Networked
Information (CNI). In this article he discusses the implications of electronic
books, including contents and rights management issues, and long-term preservation
and access.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue/6_6/lynch/index.html
2000
Academic
Libraries in a Digital Age, by John V. Lombardi.(October 2000). Goes
to the core of many of the issues. Brief but trenchant. An important read.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october00/lombardi/10lombardi.html
Digital Library Initiatives Across Europe
by David Raitt, Nov. 2000. A revised version of a paper presented at
the 11th International Conference on New Information Technology, 18-20 August,
1999, in Taipei, Taiwan. This article, published in Computers in Libraries
Vol. 20, No. 10, Nov./Dec. 2000, reviews current European digital library
initiatives, and includes links to the various project websites.
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov00/raitt.htm
If the Shoe Fits: Integrating New Electronic
Resources into the Academy and the Library (2000) By Sharon A. Hogan,
Julie Hurd, and Nancy R. John. "Much of the information used by universities
is digital. But university faculties and libraries have longstanding processes
and procedures that do not respond well to the enormous challenge these
digital objects bring with them..."
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EDU0082
On the Future of Libraries in the Digital
Revolution (2000) by Jerry D. Campbell. "There is some argument today
about whether or not the Internet qualifies as a library..."
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=EDU0067
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1999
Digital Libraries: Potential and Risks
(1999) by Barbara E. McMullen, Bonnie Postlethwaite, Miriam J. Masullo.
Discusses the technologies and events that, combined, are called a"digital
library". Their potential is contrasted with technology misconceptions and
potential social risks. An EDUCAUSE '99 presentation about the Tufts University
Smart Digital Library prototype projects. Enhanced
with dynamic Web links.
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/html/edu9948/edu9948.html
Education for Digital Libraries
by Amanda Spink & Colleen Cool. Looks at the state of education on digital
libraries, & reports findings from an international survey. D-Lib
Magazine Vol.5, No.5, May 1999 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/05spink.html
Long-term Preservation of
Electronic Publications: The NEDLIB project
by Titia van der Werf-Davelaar, D-Lib Magazine Vol.5, No.9, Sept.
1999.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september99/vanderwerf/09vanderwerf.html
The Joint NSF/JISC International
Digital Libraries Initiative
by Norman Wiseman, Chris Rusbridge & Stephen M. Griffin. "Among the most
exciting of opportunities offered by a global information infrastructure
are international digital libraries…" D-Lib Magazine Vol.5, No.6,
June 1999
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june99/06wiseman.html
1998
CEDARS:
Long-term Access and Usability of Digital Resources: The Digital Preservation
Conundrum by Kelly Russell Dec. 1998 (UK) . Article examining the meaning
of the task of digital preservation, some strategies for preserving digital
material, and provides background to the Cedars project.
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue18/cedars
NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries
Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective
by Stephen M. Griffin. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1998.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07griffin.html
Towards the Hybrid Library
by Chris Rusbridge
D-Lib Magazine July/August 1998. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/rusbridge/07rusbridge.html
Transforming Libraries: Issues and Innovations
in Preserving Digital Information by George J.Soete, 1998 (USA). Discusses
the role that libraries might play in preserving digital information. It
includes a summary of comments from twenty-one stakeholders on digital preservation
issues.
.http://www.arl.org/transform/pdi/index.html
1997
An Architecture for Information in Digital
Libraries by William Y. Arms, Christophe Blanchi & Edward A. Overly.
D-Lib Magazine, February 1997.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html
Across Languages, Across
Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries
by Carol Peters & Eugenio Picchi. D-Lib Magazine, May 1997.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/peters/05peters.html
Beyond the Beginning: The Global Digital
Library (1997) Proceedings of an international conference organized
by the United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN)
on behalf of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the Coalition
for Networked Information, the British Library Research and Innovation Centre,
CAUSE, and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL).
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/papers/bl/blri078/content/repor~t5.htm
Challenges of the Digital
Library by Joan K. Lippincott Educom Review Volume 32, Number
3 May/June 1997.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/32356.html
1996
Australian Digital Library
Initiatives Renato
Iannella (Editor.) "Australian libraries (at the Federal, State, and University
levels) together with commercial and research organisations are supporting
a diverse set of Digital Library projects…" D-Lib Magazine, December
1996.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december96/12iannella.html
How to Build a Digital Librarian
by Kirk Hastings and Roy Tennant. D-Lib Magazine, November 1996.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november96/ucb/11hastings.html
Reading the Future:
ALIA Australian Library Week Oration by Sir Anthony Mason (Chairman, National
Library of Australia Council; Chancellor, UNSW). Offers an Australian perspective
on a series of digital library issues.
http://www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/mason.html
and from even earlier days....
1995
Digital Libraries
Are Much More Than Digitized Collections Peter Evan Peters, executive
director of the Coalition for Networked Information, examines the burgeoning
new phenomenon in Educom Review, Vol. 30, No. 4 July/August 1995.
http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/30411.html
Working Towards
an Understanding of Digital Library Use: A Report on the User Research Efforts
of the NSF/ARPA/NASA DLI Projects
by Ann Peterson Bishop. D-Lib Magazine, October 1995. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october95/10bishop.html
Access
Conditional or Indirect
The following articles have
no URL provided here, but are available on the Web. They
may require your library to be subscribed to the relevant journal through
the Emerald, Ingenta or ScienceDirect services for electronic access, or
may be obtained online through a variety of commercial electronic journal
delivery services. In some cases (e.g. Learned Publishing ) access is freely
but indirectly available for older articles.. Use a search engine (e.g.
Google) to find these.
2004
The Many Facets of Managing
Electronic Resources by Marshall Breeding. " As libraries build ever-larger
collections of electronic resources, finding ways to manage them efficiently
becomes a major challenge…" Computers in Libraries Vol. 24 No.1 January
2004.
2003
A
new framework for digital publishing decisions by
Alastair Dryburgh. Learned Publishing Volume 16 Number 2 , Apr. 200.3
Authors and electronic publishing: what
authors want from the new technology by
Alma Swan & Sheridan Brown, Learned Publishing Volume 16 Number 1,
Jan. 2003.
Bibliographic description of electronic
resources and user needs by Maria
Witt. Discusses various examples of selection, bibliographic description
of electronic resources, and how the mediation provided by librarians can
help users with their choices during searching. Online Information Review
Volume 27 Number 6, Dec 2003.
Building an Electronic Resource Collection
by Stuart D Lee, Program: electronic library & information systems;
Volume 37 No. 1; 2003.
Creating Cyber Libraries: An Instructional
Guide for School Library Media Specialists by Kathleen W Craver,
Program: electronic library & information systems; Volume 37 No.
4; 2003.
Developing digital libraries by Howard
Falk, The Electronic Library; Volume 21 No. 3; 2003.
Digital Futures: Strategies for the Information
Age by Marilyn Deegan & Simon Tanner, Program: electronic library
& information systems; Volume 37 No. 1; 2003.
Digital library opportunities
by Clifford Lynch.
An edited version of the transcript of his talk at the Digital Libraries
Symposium, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Volume 29, Number 5,
2003.
Digital library research:
current developments and trends
by Ali Shiri. An overview of current trends in digital library research
under the following headings: digital library architecture, systems, tools
and technologies; digital content and collections; metadata; interoperability;
standards; knowledge organisation systems; users and usability; legal, organisational,
economic, and social issues in digital libraries. Library Review
Volume 52, Number 5, 2003.
Digital libraries: barriers or gateways
to scholarly information? by Alex Byrne, The Electronic Library;
Volume 21 No. 5; 2003.
Electronic access to and the preservation
of heritage materials by Theresa Graham, The Electronic Library;
Volume 21 No. 3; 2003.
Electronic campuses by HowardFalk,
The Electronic Library; Volume 21 No. 1; 2003.
Electronic Resources and Collection Development
by Sul H Lee, Program: electronic library & information systems;
Volume 37 No. 4; 2003.
Introduction: The future
of digital libraries
by Karen Hunter. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29, 5, Sept.
2003.
Introduction to Digital Libraries by
G.G Chowdhury & SudattaChowdhury, Program: electronic library & information
systems; Volume 37 No. 3; 2003.
Library operations and Internet resources
by Kebede Hundie, The Electronic Library; Volume 21 No. 6; 2003
Managing Electronic Reserves by Jeff
Rosedale, Program: electronic library & information systems; Volume
37 No. 3; 2003.
Managing electronic resources
in a time of shrinking budgets by Emily Miller-Francisco. This paper
discusses an actual budget trauma, and how a library could better approach
future reductions using a checklist that examines cost, content, usage,
interface, technical aspects, and the licensing agreement. Library Collections,
Acquisitions, and Technical Service Volume 27, Issue 4 , Winter 2003.
Public libraries and the consortium purchase
of electronic resources by David Ball, The Electronic Library;
Volume 21 No. 4; 2003.
Requirements for the future
digital library by
Deanna Marcum , Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29, 5 Sept. 2003.
The Library as Electronic Publisher: New
Models of Dissemination of Scholarship (ALA) Library Hi Tech News
incorporating Online and CD Notes; Volume 20 No. 8; 2003.
Voluntary deposit of electronic
publications: a learning experience by David J. Powell, Learned Publishing
Volume 16 Number 2 , Apr. 2003.
2002
Assessing Digital Library Services
(Issue Editor) Thomas A Peters Program: electronic library & information
systems; Volume 36 No. 1; 2002.
Beyond the virtual library: electronic
curriculum Web resources by Glenda Myers et al. The Electronic
Library; Volume 20 No. 6; 2002.
Building an Electronic Resource Collection:
A Practical Guide by Stuart D Lee, The Electronic Library;
Volume 20 No. 5; 2002.
Building Electronic Library Collections:
The Essential Guide to Selection Criteria and Core Subject Collections by
Diane Kovacs, Program: electronic library & information systems;
Volume 36 No. 1; 2002.
Data protection for Library and Information
Services by Paul Ticher, Program: electronic library & information
systems; Volume 36 No. 2; 2002.
Developments in Digital Libraries by
Thomas R. Kochtanek, in The Electronic Library August 2002 . Traces
the definition, history & reality of the term "digital library" & discusses
some issues.
Digital libraries and organizations for
international collaboration and knowledge creation by Suzie Allard,
The Electronic Library; Volume 20 No. 5, 2002.
Information Services in an Electronic Environment
(International Yearbook of Library and Information Management 2001/2002)
by G.E. Gorman, The Electronic Library; Volume 20 No. 3; 2002.
Organizing Audiovisual and Electronic Resources
for Access: A Cataloging Guide Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid Program: electronic
library & information systems; Volume 36 No. 1; 2002.
Selecting and Managing Electronic Resources:
A How-to-do-it Manual by Vicki L.Gregory, Program: electronic library
& information systems; Volume 36 No. 1; 2002.
The promise of digital libraries in developing
countries. I. Witten, et al, in The Electronic Library 20, 1
(2002) .
2001
A Web-based electronic book (e-book)
library: the netLibrary model by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Library
Hi Tech; Volume 19 No. 4; 2001.
Getting started with library digitization
projects: funding your first (and subsequent) digital projects by B.
Eden in The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 25, 5 (2001).
Greenstone: open-source digital library
software with end-user collection building in Online Information
Review 25, 5 (2001).
Virtual and non-virtual realities:
the changing roles of libraries and librarians
by Alex C. Klugkist. "What is the future for libraries and their librarians?
In trying to give an answer to this pressing question we do not deal with
utopian libraries of the next century, but with the library and the librarian
of the next decade. The emphasis is on libraries within educational and
research institutions, especially university libraries…" Learned Publishing,
Vol. 14 No. 3 Jul. 2001.
2000
Collection development in cyberspace:
building an electronic library collection by Diane K. Kovacs
& Angela Elkordy, Library Hi Tech; Volume 18 No. 4; 2000.
Electronic scholarly monographs:
issues and challenges for the UK
by R. E. Lonsdale & C. J. Armstrong, Learned Publishing Volume 13
Number 1, Jan. 2000.
Planning the electronic library - suggested
guidelines for the Arabian Gulf region by M. Saleh Ashoor, The Electronic
Library; Volume 18 No. 1; 2000.
The costs of information technology and
the electronic library by Diane R Tebbetts, The Electronic Library;
Volume 18 No. 2; 2000.
The electronic library: a review by
Nick Joint & DerekLaw, Library Review; Volume 49 No.
9; 2000.
1999
Academic/librarianship partnerships
in the electronic library by Christine Dugdale, Program: electronic
library & information systems; Volume 33 No. 1; 1999.
Digital library research: major issues
and trends by G.G. Chowdhury & S. Choudhury, in Journal of Documentation
55, 4,1999.
Electronic publishing: non-commercial
alternatives by Fytton
Rowland. Describes new non-commercial publishing models over the preceding
ten years, & covers much of the ground of the then nascent "open access"
movement. Learned Publishing, Volume 12 Number 3, Jul. 1999.
Managing the Electronic Library: A Practical
Guide for Information Professionals (Editors), Terry Hanson and Joan
Day Library Review; Volume 48 No. 8, 1999.
Preserving digital scholarship: the future
is now by Kelly Russell, Ellis Weinberger & Andy Stone, Learned Publishing,
Volume 12 Number 4, Oct. 1999.
Publisher-library relationships
in the digital environment by John Cox, Learned Publishing, Volume
12 Number 3, Jul. 1999.
Storing and viewing electronic documents
by Howard Falk, The Electronic Library; Volume 17 No. 1, 1999.
The Electronic Library by Jennifer
Rowley, Library Review; Volume 48 No. 4; 1999.
1998
Library technology centers and
community building: Yale University Library Electronic Text centre by
Diane Y Goldenberg-Hart, Library Hi Tech; Volume 16 No. 3;
1998.
Requirements for an Online
electronic journal service
by David Penfold. This article is based on a report made to the Electronic
Journal and Learned Societies Project, part of the Electronic Libraries
(eLib) Programme. Learned Publishing Volume 11 Number 1, Jan 1998.
Scholarly journal publishing:
coming to terms with the Internet culture
by David Brown, Learned Publishing Volume 11, Number 3, Jul. 1998.
The Public Electronic Library: Making resources
more accessible Daggett, Steven C; Lundquist, Mitch Library Hi Tech;
Volume 16 No. 3; 1998.
1997
Electronic archive - a contradiction
in terms? by Clive
Semmens. Learned Publishing Volume 10, Number 3, Jul. 1997.
Journey to the future: the
library view on development and initiatives in the electronic publishing
environment, by Elspeth J. Scott. A paper presented at the STM Innovations
Seminar, London, December 1996. Learned Publishing Volume 10, Number
3, Jul. 1997.
What Librarians want: transplanting
yesterday into tomorrow
by Bernard Naylor. "The electronic learned journal of tomorrow is likely
to be substantially different from today's print-on-paper precursor. The
emphasis will be on accessibility for the individual user… Parallel publishing
itself is likely to be a temporary phenomenon, preceding exclusively electronic
scholarly publication in many fields…" Learned Publishing Volume
10 Number 3 Jul. 1997.
1996
Information services and user
training in the electronic library Lapp, Erdmute Library Management;
Volume 17 No. 7; 1996.
The following are available in Print only:
The digital library by
Hans Geleijnse, Learned Publishing, Volume 9 Number 4, Oct. 1996.
Spreading
the digital word: ISI's Electronic Library Project by Isabel Czech.
ibid.
Preserving the digital imprint
by Jack Meadows by Isabel Czech. ibid.
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