Delivering digital services

a handbook or public libraries and learning centres

Lifelong learning is currently a major concern of governments who wish to see their citizens remain employable while the job market changes. Critical to this are digital learning centres where learning is delivered through internet access or via CD-based packages. Access to these turns public ...

Managing 21st Century libraries

Managing 21st Century Libraries is primarily concerned with creating the circumstances in which people can maximize the use of their talents and generating the opportunities for people to work with others in ways that engage all of the abilities of everyone involved. It is about ...

Managing digital resources in libraries

Managing Digital Resources in Libraries is a practical guide to managing library materials in digital formats. Working librarians share their expertise in the acquisition and management of digital resources, addressing questions of licensing, funding, and providing access. The contributors also examine innovative projects and systems ...

Digital libraries

implementing strategies and sharing experiences: 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, held in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2005.The 40 revised full papers, 15 revised short papers, and 15 posters presented together with 5 keynote and invited papers were ...

Collection management and strategic access to digital resources

the new challenges for research libraries

Introduction by Sul H. Lee Collections of record and scholarly communications : the responsibilities of the research library in a rapidly evolving digital world by Fred M. Heath and Jocelyn Duffy Collecting at the edge - transforming scholarship by Paul M. Gherman Better mousetraps in turbulent times ...

Exploring the digital library

a guide for online teaching and learning

"Exploring the Digital Library", a volume in "The Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning series", addresses the key issue of library services for faculty and their students in the online learning environment. Written by librarians at Athabasca University, a leading institution in distance education, this book ...

E-book publishing success

how anyone can write, compile and sell e-books on the Internet

Summary: This book contains detailed and easy-to-digest information on all aspects of writing, preparing and marketing electronic books (ebooks). It covers such aspects as: 1. How to develop ideas to write about 2. How to start the compilation of the ebook 3. How to choose ...

Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich, multi-media ...

Digital libraries and the challenges of digital humanities

Summary: One of the major challenges facing librarians and curators of digital repositories are the innovative 'born digital' documents created by scholars in the humanities. These documents range from the parsed corpora created by linguists to traditional reference information presented in electronic databases, to rich ...

The digital challenge for libraries

understanding the culture and technology of total information

Public and university libraries are at a crossroads, hard-pressed by competition from Internet search engines, declining budgets and changes in popular culture. Libraries must respond aggressively. Otherwise they will be marginalized by the impact of digital technology on their traditional customer base. Author Ralph Blanchard ...

Guía metodológica para la implantación de una biblioteca digital universitaria

La provisión de contenidos a texto completo es un tema de candente actualidad, que afecta a la realidad cotidiana de muchos centros de información, pero también a usuarios que quieren conseguir que su información sea accesible. Esta Guía metodológica para la implantación de una biblioteca ...

An introduction to library and information work

The expanded CILIP Framework of Qualifications, with its introduction of Certified Membership for staff in paraprofessional roles, reflects the continuing need for a textbook to replace earlier editions as the standard work for paraprofessional library and information staff and for the introductory year of professional ...

Cibermetría

nuevas técnicas de estudio aplicables al Web

Del texto al Hipertexto

las bibliotecas universitarias ante el reto de la digitalización

The strategic management of technology

a guide for library and information services

Aimed at professionals within Library and Information Services (LIS), this book is about the management of technology in a strategic context. The book is written against a backdrop of the complete transformation of LIS over the last twenty years as a result of technology. The ...

Bibliotecas virtuales para las ciencias sociales

Metadata for information management and retrieval

for information management and retrieval

What is metadata and what do I need to know about it? These are two key questions for the information professional operating in the digital age as more and more information resources are available in electronic format. This is a thought-provoking introduction to metadata written ...

Los portales bibliotecarios

Este libro dibuja las líneas principales para la elaboración del proyecto informativo público en línea de la biblioteca. En el contexto de la sociedad de la información, la biblioteca debe enfocarse conceptualmente como una biblioteca híbrida, donde se produce una constante evolución tecnológica y una ...

Contenidos.eu

las nuevas tecnologías de la información ante la diversidad cultural y lingüística de Europa

Las nuevas tecnologías están produciendo un cambio en la correlación de fuerzas de los tradicionales agentes y mercados de la comunicación y la cultura. En la Unión Europea, las empresas y las instituciones comunitarias deben desempeñar un papel muy activo en la creación de un ...

Building and electronic resource collection

a practica guide

All information and library professionals involved with collection development are currently confronting the challenge of how to make informed decisions in the face of the bewildering array of electronic resources available. This practical book addresses this situation by guiding the information professional step-by-step through building ...