A Personal History of Digital Libraries
AbstractPurpose - This is a personal view of the development of digital libraries.Design/methodology/approach - The article reviews the history of the area.Findings - We have been through technical,...
View ArticleThe 1990s: The Formative Years of Digital Libraries
AbstractPurpose - This is an invited paper for the 30th anniversary issue of Library Hi Tech.Design/methodology/approach - The article discusses some of the principal digital libraries projects during...
View ArticleInteractions between Libraries and Technology over the Past Thirty Years: an...
AbstractPurpose - To look back on the last thirty years of technology development for libraries.Design/methodology/approach - An interview that took place at the American Library Association Annual...
View ArticleThirty Years of Information Technology
AbstractPurpose - This issue of Library Hi Tech offers a retrospective over the last thirty years of information technology as used in libraries and other memory institutions, particularly archives and...
View ArticlePromotional strategies for information products and services: Aligning with...
AbstractPurpose– Libraries are subscribing to many expensive information products/services available through information aggregator/provider services. It is a concern for them, as well as these...
View ArticleFrom static to dynamic: Using the OPAC to generate real-time lists of...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to report on a successful implementation of a current awareness service designed to inform teaching faculty and liaison librarians as to the status of library materials...
View ArticleWebsites for booklovers as meeting places
AbstractPurpose– The study aims to report on a research project that analyzed social websites for booklovers. These sites represent a service that is promising for public libraries in their efforts to...
View ArticleTIIARA: the “making of” a bilingual taxonomy for retrieval of digital images
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to present the results of the second phase of a research project aiming to develop a bilingual taxonomy for the description of digital images. The objective of this...
View ArticleThe first 30 years of the internet through the lens of an academic library:...
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to examine how the internet both precipitated and facilitated significant shifts for academic libraries in the kinds of services they provide, and the ways in which...
View ArticleThe rise of digital curation and cyberinfrastructure: From experimentation to...
AbstractPurpose– The terms “digital curation” and “cyberinfrastructure” have been coined in the last decade to describe distinct but related concepts of how data can be managed, preserved, manipulated...
View ArticleA personal history of digital libraries
AbstractPurpose– This paper aims to present a personal view of the development of digital libraries, starting with the original vision of 1945 and describing how it came to the dominance of online...
View ArticleThe 1990s: the formative years of digital libraries
AbstractPurpose– This article aims to discuss some of the principal digital libraries projects during the 1990s and the impact that they had on modern libraries. Design/methodology/approach– The paper...
View ArticleInteractions between libraries and technology over the past 30 years: An...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this paper is to look back on the last 30 years of technology development for libraries. Design/methodology/approach– The paper presents an interview that took place at...
View ArticleThirty years of information technology
AbstractPurpose– This issue of Library Hi Tech aims to offer a retrospective over the last 30 years of information technology as used in libraries and other memory institutions, particularly archives...
View ArticleArchiving in the Digital World: Resource Description Framework (RDF)
AbstractPurpose - This article examines a project where Resource Description Framework (RDF) is expected to function both in the short term and over long periods. Because RDF is comparatively new, the...
View Article21st Century librarians: time for Zones of Intervention and Zones of Proximal...
AbstractPurpose - Purpose – The purpose of this contribution is to encourage library and information (LIS) professionals to draw on the initiatives by Carol Kuhlthau to align information seeking with...
View ArticleWho is following us? Data mining a library's Twitter followers
AbstractPurpose - Twitter is an increasingly popular social networking tool for libraries to use to reach out to their patrons, but very little research has been done to determine who is following...
View ArticleElectronic Government as a Paradigm Shift for Efficient Public Services:...
AbstractPurpose - Nigeria set up e-government initiative termed National e-Government Strategy (NeGSt) for the purpose of using ICT infrastructure to enhance her public services. It was expected that...
View ArticleUnderstanding science and technology information users through transaction...
AbstractPurpose - This study provides insights into user interaction with a Web-based information system of science and technology, as extending the large-scale research of search queries. Ultimately,...
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