num_pages: 416
description: Essential facts, advice, lists, documents, guidelines, lore, wit, and Along with fun and irreverence, it's what readers have come to expect from the Whole Library series. This latest entry zooms in on the cutting edge -- the digital library. In a one-volume compendium that's by turns encyclopedic, useful, and engaging, contributors provide an overview of digital libraries, covering the state of information, issues, customers, challenges, tools and technology, preservation, and the future. From blogs to Wikis, highlights Collecting insights from library luminaries as well 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. Digital libraries are all about access to information, and this is the one-volume resource that puts it all in perspective.
language: English
title: The Whole Digital Library Handbook
titlecomplete: The Whole Digital Library Handbook
genres: Nonfiction, Library Science
ratings_count: 19
publisher: ALA Editions