The second section provides examples of how KOSs can be used to enhance digital libraries in a variety of disciplines, and describes how a KOS can be used to link a digital resource to related material. The third section discusses how KOSs can be used to provide disparate communities with access to digital library resources by using a KOS to provide alternate subject access, to add a new mode of access to the digital library, to provide multilingual access, or to support free-text searching. The report concludes with a discussion of issues to consider when using KOSs with digital libraries. It provides a framework for the design, planning, implementation, and maintenance of KOSs in digital libraries. The report is presented in five sections.
Several appendices provide copies of the instruments and a glossary.
This report offers a vision for digital learning and focuses on actions that schools, teachers, students, and parents must take to integrate digital content into the curriculum to create the learning environments that develop 21st century skills. Section I presents a vision for digital learning. Section IV presents a tool for self-assessment. This book examines technical, social, and management issues related to librarians and cyberspace. The Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of Congress convened by the CSTB focused its efforts on the present and future of information systems and technologies that are intimately tied to the mission of the Library.