Vol. 5, No. 1/2, Januar 2004
 
Mary Ann Sheble
Library Systems, Oakland Community College, Oakland County, Michigan
 
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: JUST WHAT WE NEED OR CONFUSING QUAGMIRE
 
UDK: 04.738.52:004.455/.457:024/027.6/.7
Remark: Paper presented on the International Conference "Virtual Library: Democratic Access to Information", held in Constanta, Romania, 28-31 July 2003.
Keywords: Digital libraries, development, col-lege libraries, users, services, library networks, electronic resources, access, digitizing, support
Abstract:  Building of the digital library components for the Library Systems of the Oakland Community College is the result of a balance between the chal-lenges of meeting the needs of users and limited resources. Stressing that libraries are in competition with Google, Yahoo and other information provi-ders, the author indicates the necessity of providing the basics (e.g. making the digital library easy for finding information, integrating/separating traditi-onal and digital resources, maintaining separate gateways for electronic resources, one-stop shop-ping through the online catalog), as well as provi-ding added-value services (e.g. online interlibrary loan, digital reference, authentication for off-campus use, journal linking services, information portals, assignments on the library Website, digitizing re-sources). A wish list containing "federated sear-ching", "article-level linking", and "cooperative vir-tual reference" has been developed in planning for future development to the digital library.

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ARTICLES

Judith J. Field
DIGITAL REFERENCE SERVICE: The Killer Application?

Gordon Neavill
EMERGENCE OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Mary Ann Sheble
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: JUST WHAT WE NEED OR CONFUSING QUAGMIRE

Hermina G. B. Anghelescu
DIGITAL INFORMATION: PRESERVATION AND ACCESS

Doina Banciu
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY—INFOSOC NATIONAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND INNOVATION PROGRAM: PROJECTS FOR LIBRARIES

Dušan SurlaZora KonjovićBranko MilosavljevićMiroslav ZarićGoran SladićZvezdan ProtićSrdjan KomazecDušan Okanović
OVERVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NETWORKED DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Branko MilosavljevićZora Konjović
MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL IN THE NETWORKED DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Milan VidakovićZora Konjović
ONE IMPLEMENTATION OF CENTRAL CATALOGUE FOR LOCAL LIBRARY RECORD DATABASES

Miroslav Zarić, Dušan Surla
IMPLEMENTATION OF PROTOCOL FOR METADATA HARVESTING IN NETWORKED DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONS

Gordana Budimir
MARC RECORDS AND XML

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