Development of digital libraries
Subtitle: an American perspective
By: edited by Deanna B. Marcum ; foreword by Kakugyo S. Chiku.
Contributors: Marcum, Deanna B.; Kanazawa Institute of Technology International Roundtable on Library and Information Science.
Series: Contributions in librarianship and information science,; no. 95
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Digital libraries -- United States -- Congresses.; Digital libraries -- Congresses.; Libraries -- Special collections -- Electronic information resources -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented from 1994 to 1998 at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) International Roundtable on Library and Information Science.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Perspectives on the Library in the Twenty-First Century I. Scholarship, Information, and Libraries in the Electronic Age; title: Stanley Chodorow; title: The Impact of Information Technologies on the Role of Research Libraries in Teaching and Learning in the United States; title: Elaine Sloan; title: The Life of the Mind in a World Transformed by Networks and Digital Libraries; title: Paul Evan Peters; title: What's Happening to the Book?; title: Richard A. Lanham; title: The Impact of Digital Technology on Libraries: A Chaotic Revolution; title: Jerry D. Campbell; title: The Future Value of Digital Information and Digital Libraries; title: Michael Lesk; title: II. Meeting the Challenges of the Digital Library 7. The Library as Provider of Digital Resources for Teaching and Scholarship; title: Ann J. Wolpert; title: 8. Can We Afford Digital Information? Libraries? An Early Assessment of Economic Prospects for Digital Publications; title: Ann B. Okerson; title: 9. Intellectual Property Policy for an Information Society; title: Peter Lyman; title: 10. The Uses of Digital Libraries: Some Technological, Political, and Economic Considerations; title: Donald J. Waters; title: 11. Digital Preservation: An Update; title: Deanna B. Marcum; title: 12. The Impact of Digital Libraries on Library Staffing and Education; title: Rachael K. Anderson; title: 13. Government Records in a Digital World; title: Peter B. Hirtle; title: 14. A View on the Ecology of Information; title: Brian L. Hawkins III. The Digital Library in the Service of Research and Education: Some Experiences 15. The Library of Congress's National Digital Library: Reaching Out to Schools and Libraries through the Internet; title: Laura Campbell; title: 16. Toward Libraries' Digital Future: The Canadian Digital Library Experience; title: Leigh Swain and Susan Haigh; title: 17. The Future of Libraries and Library Schools; title: Daniel E. Atkins; title: 18. Redefining the University through Educational and Information Technologies: North Carolina State University, Its Libraries, and Distance Education; title: Susan K. Nutter; title: 19 Re-engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum; title: Jack M. Wilson; title: 20. The Internet Public Library: Development and Future; title: Joseph W. Janes; title: 21. Public Libraries in the United States: Service to Business , Industry; title: Beverly P. Lynch; title: 22. Prognosis on Becoming Digital: Digital Information, Global Networks, and Business Education; title: William D. Walker; title: About the Contributors.