Reading Post for Unit 11

Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work

-There has been a movement by information professionals to develop these digital libraries comprised of the existing digital collections.
-federally funded and supported digital projects were present from early on.
-Some of the first federal funded projects were called the Digital Libraries Initiative or DLI-1
-DLI-1 was comprised of six university led projects


Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative.

-National Science Foundation's digital library is targeted toward librarians, computer scientists, and publishers but the ultimate project appealed to many other groups
-Many computer scientists, who had been trained for years to use libraries, they were able to help generate how libraries can operate in the digital environment
-librarians saw an great opportunity to get sufficient funding and that digital technology was important in order to advance libraries influence on scholarly works
-The popularity of the World Wide Web changed the direction of the projects
-There was some disagreement between the role of user and reference services in regards to the collection
-both computer scientists and librarians were affected by the world wide web and had to change their view and purpose of the project


Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

-Technology has made online repositories possible
-This information revolution has impacted scholarly communication and access
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed Dspace repository system
-Other universities are attempting to recreate this model repository system at their own institution
-most important aspects are the "management of technological changes, and the migration of digital content from one set of technologies to the next as part of the organizational commitment to providing repository services"
-the increase of these repositories shows that academic and university scholarly communication is switching to digital format
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