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Whole Digital Library Handbook

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ISBN-10: 0838909264

ISBN-13: 9780838909263

Edition: 2007

Authors: Diane Kresh, Council on Library and Information Resources Staff

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Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and wisdom: Along with fun and irreverence, it's what readers have come to expect from the Whole Library series. In a one-volume compendium that's by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, this latest entry provides an overview of digital libraries, covering the state of information, issues, customers, challenges, tools and technology, preservation, and the future. Collecting insights from library luminaries as well as the perspectives of interesting experts from outside the ranks of library professionals, The Whole Digital Library Handbook decodes the jargon and cuts to the chase.
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Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: American Library Association
Publication date: 2/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.07" wide x 8.89" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Preface
Definitions
A Digital Library Is...
The Invisible Library
What Are Digital Libraries?
What Is Digital Information?
Back to the Future
The New Cybrarians
Libraries as Places to Linger and Mingle
Research Libraries Ponder: What's Next?
The Digital Library Federation: Membership Has Its Privileges
What Becomes a Leader Most?
Which Came First?
Reference in the Digital Age
Primary Resources at Your Fingertips
Shelve under E
Value Propositions
Glossary of Terms
Users
Growing Up Digital
Nothing but Net
Chips and Dips: Educating and Serving the Net Generation
Net Gains
Emerging Roles
Origin of the Species
Diffuse Libraries
Digital Collections, Digital Libraries, and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information
Intermediate Consumers
Advanced Photo Shop
Cautionary Tales: Part One
Cautionary Tales: Part Two
Strength in Numbers
Who Uses What?
Turn On before Using
The Tipping Point
The Case against Information Literacy
How They View Us: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources
The Landscape
The Public Trust
Wagging the Tail
Libraries by the Tail
Phoning Home Alone
Keystone Cops
Our Computers, Ourselves
Managing the Internet
Growing Pains
Net Generation Students and Libraries
Viewing Patterns
"Is What's Past, Prologue?"
Net Effects
Famine or Feast?
From a Distance
Law Review
The Market
What We Know Will Hurt Us
Internet Searching Gets Thumbs Up
Et Tu, Yahoo!?
Fear No Evil
Scanning the Horizon
As Google Goes...
Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good
Scribes of the Digital Era
Apples and Oranges
Web Value
Tools
The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto
Invasion of the Pod People
Striking a Balance
Getting the Goods
Where's Wiki???
Sticky Wikis
Playing Well with Others
Caught in the Webbing
Defining Findability
Internet Libraries
Ten Tips for a Better Blog
Blog Beginnings
The Blog Files
Coming Soon: Doing Research with Your Cell Phone
Digital Library Services for All
The Future of e-Books
iPods Add Wow Factor
More on Pod People
Wireless Libraries and Wireless Communities: Why?
IM the Walrus
Operations
I Am the Very Model of Computerized Librarian
Starting Out
Principles for Good Digital Collections
Just Say the Word
Starting a Digitization Project
Technical Infrastructure/Image Creation
Factors to Consider When Choosing Digital Formats
Digitization = Access
Going Where the Users Are
Chatting It Up
Making Chat Work Better
Copyright Need-to-Know Basics
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Why Librarians Care about Copyright
Preservation
Digitization Is Not Preservation-at Least Not Yet
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Digital Preservation
Strategies for Preserving Digital Content
The Key to LOCKSS: An Interview with Victoria Reich, Director, LOCKSS Program
The Future
Reinventing the Library
The Third Law
Keeping It Open
A Modest Proposal
Looking for Bucks
Getting the Right Stuff
Tips for Managing E-Resources
Index