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Product Description: Some have viewed the ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the traditional library. But Weiss, recognizing the concept of the library as a "big idea" that has been implemented in many ways over thousands of years, is not so gloomy...read more

Product Description: The emergence of open access, web technology, and e-publishing has slowly transformed modern libraries into digital libraries. With this variety of technologies utilized, cloud computing and virtual technology has become an advantage for libraries to provide a single efficient system that saves money and time...read more

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Product Description: It is no secret that the world of libraries has rapidly evolved into an environment which will quickly be largely digitized. However, this digital shift has brought with it a unique set of challenges and issues for scholars and librarians to handle...read more

Product Description: In recent years, libraries have embraced new technologies that organize and store a variety of digital information, such as multimedia databases, digital medical images, and content-based images. Modern Library Technologies for Data Storage Retrieval, and Use highlights new features of digital library technology in order to educate the database community...read more

Product Description: The skills of digital librarianship are more crucial than ever, and these same skills are in high demand outside the field, from tech startups undertaking digitization projects to digital humanities centers bringing together professors, computer scientists, and information technologists...read more

Product Description: Digital libraries are libraries in which collections are stored in digital formats (as opposed to print, microform, or other media) and accessible by computers.Multimedia Storage and Retrieval Innovations for Digital Library Systems offers the latest research on retrieval and storage methods for digital library systems, a burgeoning field of data sourcing...read more

Product Description: Digital libraries are gaining popularity among library and information science professionals. This book describes the various facets of digital libraries in the present scenario. Contents include: Concept of Digital Libraries * Digital Libraries: Components and Services * Documents in Digital Libraries * Internet and Internet Resources * Cataloguing of Digital Resources: Metadata and Its Creation * Digital Preservation * Information Access in Digital Libraries * Copyrights and Intellectual Property Rights * Library Consortia * E-learning and Digital Libraries * Open Access and Institutional Repositories * Open Source Softwar...read more

Product Description: This volume deals primarily with the experiences of users and current methodological trends in digital libraries. It provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the user orientation of digital libraries(evaluation, usefulness, interculturality, web design, relevance ranking, mobile terminals)...read more

Product Description: The development of new information technology has created an interest in the development of digital libraries. This book provides an overview of the various concepts of digital libraries. It covers a wide range of topics related to digital libraries, from historical developments to the process of digitization...read more

Product Description: This book - based on research in India - will be essential reading for professionals in the field of Library and Information Science. The book examines the following topics: a step-by-step account of how effectively a library should deal with e-resources * the response towards open access by prominent scholarly publishers * how digital media can play a lead role in distance education * how the key services of India's DELNET can rescue geographically-dispersed, resource-starved, distance learners * an Indian case study on the crucial problem of price verification of books purchased in a library * research collaboration of teachers of library science, librarians, and library science students * how public libraries can be used effectively for spreading science awareness * the need of digital enabling of public libraries for empowering the citizens * possible applications of Dr...read more

Product Description: This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a simple keyword search...read more

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The president of France's Bibliothque Nationale shares his concerns with Google's plan to scan the book collections of six major university libraries into a keyword-searchable online index and explores its impact on European culture and language and warns of its misrepresentation of the world's cultural heritage. Reprint.