Practical digital libraries
Subtitle: books, bytes, and bucks
By: Michael Lesk.
Series: The Morgan Kaufmann series in multimedia information and systems
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Libraries -- United States -- Special collections -- Computer files.; Digital libraries -- United States.
Description: Offers a wide ranging overview of digital libraries currently available; analizes economic and intellectual property issues in the emerging digital environment and show how text, images and audio and video can be represented, distributed, used and collected as forms of knowledge.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-283) and index.