Resumo de Digital Library Development - Deanna b. Marcum and Gerald George

DigitaI library is a great evolution. Imagine
having the collections of great libraries as one''s personal computer,
accessible by clicking on a screen and searchable, linkable, and recombinable
for research, education, and enjoyment. This book chronicles progress toward
the digital library dream, analyzes obstacles that remain, and presents
possibilities that inspire continues experimentation. Leading thinkers and
experimenters in the field have contributed chapters for this book, which we
have arranged as a kind of exploratory journey for the reader, offering four
thematic ?stops? on the way across the changing landscape of digital library
development. Stanley Chodorow puts digital library
development in historical perspective to clarify where it may be going. John
Unsworth describes exciting new kinds of scholarship that take advantage of
digital technology ? if tenure committees will accept them. And Lee Jones identifies an ?ideal future environment? for delivering
digital documents to scholarly users and speculates that libraries may become
more deliverers than owners of information. Winston Tab describes
organizational barriers to digital library development. Chaterine Marshall
explains efforts to overcome difficulties in reading digital publications and
describes possibilities for giving readers ?an experience that transcends
paper.? Creating Projects and Programs, our third thematic stop, brings us back
to a larger picture. James Neal, describing digital library developments in
education, stresses the importance of laying a groundwork of collaborative
relations with faculty. Nicholas Burckel shows that the digital era does not
make library buildings obsolete but enables them to serve people rather than
books. In a review, the possibilities, of digital information
technologies must be realized not because we need better libraries but because
we need expanded capacities as humans to understand ourselves and everything
about us. Digital information development creates more than new technological
applications or new ways to make money. The journey began in Japan more
than a decade ago when a group of Americans accepted an invitation to speak in
what became the annual International Roundtable on Library and Information
Science at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT). Chiku, director of the
institute?s Library Center, called that publication a milestone, ?completing the mission? of
those early roundtables ?in terms of international exchange.? Now, as the
annual roundtable continues, this second volume collects many of the papers
from its second five years. But also, as Deanna
Marcum, chair of the committee that selects American participants in the
roundtable, wrote in the first volume, we want to ?chronicle the development of
digital libraries in major research institutions in the United States? while
encouraging continuation of the effort.

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