Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives (Premier Reference Source)

✍ Scribed by Tariq Ashraf, Puja Anand Gulati

• Publisher: Information Science Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 379
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation.Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives presents a compilation of articles discussing the benefits and challenges of digital information and library digitization. Scholars from around the globe investigate web application development, techniques for digital conversion, composition of digital libraries, digital environments, and much more. This reference work proves valuable to the study and enhancement of digital information systems and technologies, and in assisting practitioners in the implementation and building of such systems and applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgment......Page 17
Digital Libraries: A Sustainable Approach......Page 18
Digital Libraries and Scholarly Communication: A Perspective......Page 36
Digitisation: Methods, Tools and Technology......Page 57
Tools and Techniques for Digital Conversion......Page 81
Building Digital Libraries: Role of Social (Open Source) Software......Page 107
Web 2.0 and Social Web Approaches to Digital Libraries......Page 125
Information Preservation and Information Services in the Digital Age......Page 150
Digital Preservation Challenges, Infrastructures and Evaluations......Page 162
Managing Change in Reference and Information Services in Digital Environment......Page 177
Digital Library and Repositories: An Indian Initiative......Page 201
Collaborative Digital Library Development in India: A Network Analysis......Page 223
Intellectual Property Rights......Page 240
Facilitating Access to Indian Cultural Heritage: Copyright, Permission Rights and Ownership Issues vis-à-vis IGNCA Collections......Page 252
Harnessing Technology for Providing Knowledge for Development: New Role for Libraries......Page 269
Digital Library And E-Governance: Moving Towards Sustainable Rural Livelihoods......Page 282
Bridging the Digital Divide: A Review of Critical Factors in Developing Countries......Page 303
Digital Divide and Economic Wealth: Evidence from Asia-Pacific Countries......Page 328
Compilation of References......Page 338
About the Contributors......Page 363
Index......Page 368