Editorial Advisory Board 2002/2003

About the contributors

Introduction

Part 1 In Praise of the Digital Revolution?

The spectrum of digital objects in the library and beyond

Marilyn Deegan

Digital versus print issues

Lorna Peterson

Part 2 Institutional Models and Finance

New models of the library in a digital era

Peter Brophy

The economic oppo rtunities and costs of developing digital libraries and resources

Simon Tanner

Part 3 Books and 'Readers'

Reading in a digital age

Catherine Sheldrick Ross

Judging a book by its cover: e-books, digitization and print on demand

Shirley Hyatt

The digital library and younger users

Denice Adkins

Part 4 Reference Services

Web-based reference services: design and implementation decisions

Stephen M. Mutula

Web-based reference services: the user-intermediary interaction perspective

Sherry Shiuan Su

Digital library initiatives for academic teaching and learning: towards a managed information environment for online learning

Judith Clark

It's just a click away, or is it? The challenge of implementing a global information network

Diane Kresh

Part 5 Collection Management

Evaluating digital collections

Alastair G. Smith

Creating content together: an international perspective on digitization programmes

David Dawson

Part 6 Standards and Technology

Making sense of metadata: reading the words on a spinning top

Daniel G. Dorner

Beyond today's search engines

Christopher Brown-Syed

Are we information providers or the information police? The uneasy marriage between access and security

Shadrack Katuu

Index