Digital Library Information and Resources
Research on digital libraries encompasses a range of intertwined technical, social and political issues. One of the better descriptions of digital libraries comes from the Santa Fe Workshop on Distributed Knowledge Work Environments. "[T]he concept of a "digital library" is not merely equivalent to a digitized collection with information management tools. It is rather an environment to bring together collections, services, and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of data, information, and knowledge." I have made my selections for this page on the basis of their breadth, depth, ingenuity and availability of content online.
Toward a worldwide digital library (Edward A Fox Gary Marchionini) Communications of the ACM Apr 1998
The Scholar in the Digital Library (John Unsworth) Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) University of Virginia April 6, 2000
Do we expect libraries to continue to be (or perhaps, to become once again) the most important finding aids for digital information? If so, how do we think that will happen? And will libraries support these other activities, from comparison to annotation to representation (which could include authoring, collaboration, and publishing)? If so, will they also collect and preserve and make it possible to find these comparisons, annotations, and representations, or will they simply provide a place where scholars can sketch them, share them, and scratch them out or pass them on? The library is already, in my university, becoming a laboratory for the humanities in a way that it hasn't been for a long time. That laboratory function, with all its expensive and messy creation, may be a larger part of the library's future than it has been of its past. And I think there's little doubt that libraries will continue to be important keepers of information: I don't see any other institution out there likely to do that. But whether libraries retain the important function of helping us find information depends, I think, on whether they take seriously the importance of ready access to boundless collections--not that this is the only kind of access that matters, but because it is almost always the first kind that does, even for the scholar.
Digital Library Federation presentations
Digital Library News (A publication of the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Digital Libraries) to 1998
review of 3 recent Digital Library books two of which are in this set of 3 from Annie:
CALL NO. Z692.C65 A76 2000. AUTHOR Arms, William Y. TITLE Digital libraries / William Y. Arms. IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000. CALL NO. ZA3225 .B67 2000. AUTHOR Borgman, Christine L., 1951- TITLE From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure : access to information in the networked world / Christine L. Borgman. IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000. CALL NO. Z693 .S92 2000. AUTHOR Svenonius, Elaine. TITLE The intellectual foundation of information organization IMPRINT Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000.
Collaboration as a Key to Digital Library Development: High Performance Image Management at the University of Washington (Geri Bunker and Greg Zick) D-Lib Magazine March 1999