Using Massive Digital Libraries: A LITA Guide

by Andrew Weiss

Overview

In this thought-provoking and unabashedly optimistic book, he explores how massive digital libraries are already adapting to society's needs, and looks ahead to the massive digital libraries of tomorrow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838919743
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	07/18/2014
Series:	LITA Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Andrew Weiss is the Digital Services Librarian at California State University, Northridge's Oviatt Library. His professional areas of expertise include scholarly communication, digital repository development and open access advocacy. His past research has focused on digital libraries, digitization and open access publishing. He also has great interest in Japanese culture, literature, and its history of librarianship.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1 - Background
1 A Brief History of Digital Libraries-or, How Did We Get Here?
2 Massive Digital Libraries-or, Where Are We?
3 Major Party Players and Their Characteristics-or, Who's at the Party?
4 Impact on Librarianship-or, How Do I Deal with This?

Part 2 - The Philosophical Issues
5 The Copyright Conundrum-or, How Is This Allowed?
6 Collection Development-or, How Did I Get This?
7 Collection Diversity-or, Why Is This Missing?
8 Access-or, Why Can't I Get This?

Part 3 - Practical Applications
9 Using MDLs in Libraries-or, To What End?
10 Four MDL Studies

Index