Digital Libraries
Integrating Content and Systems
- 1st Edition - June 30, 2006
- Latest edition
- Authors: Mark V. Dahl, Kyle Banerjee, Michael Spalti
- Language: English
Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book… Read more
Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual institutions.
- Familiarizes readers with general and library specific technologies required to provide digital library services
- Helps readers better understand trade offs between in-house and vendor solutions
- Provides library decision makers with technology staffing guidance
Practitioners and students of Library and Information science
Introduction; Enabling technologies; The role of standards in digital library integration; Authentication, identity management and security; Interfacing with integrated library systems; Electronic resource management; Digital asset management; Integration with content providers; Library portals; Conclusion: digital libraries and the library organisation.
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 30, 2006
- Language: English
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Mark V. Dahl
Mark Dahl is Assistant Director for Systems and Access Services at Lewis & Clark College’s Watzek Library in Portland, Oregon, USA.
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Kyle Banerjee
Kyle Banerjee is the Head of the Automated Systems Unit at the Oregon State Library in Salem, Oregon.
Affiliations and expertise
Oregon State LibraryMS
Michael Spalti
Michael Spalti is Associate University Librarian for Systems at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Affiliations and expertise
Willamette University, USARead Digital Libraries on ScienceDirect