Digital Library and Digital Reference Service: Integration and Mutual Complementarity

Reference Library Service in the Digital Environment

The reference library plays a valuable role in a print environment for at least two purposes: direct ready reference, the seeking or verification of basic facts; and finding contextual aspects of a person, place, event, period, or other topic. For the first task, one needs an appropriate single source; for the second, a well-selected range of different reference resources, such as dictionaries,...

Service Perspectives for the Digital Library: Remote Reference Services

THISARTICLE WILL EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARIAN arid of the service perspective in the digital library environment. The focus of the article will be limited to the topic of librarian/user collaboration where the librarian and user are not co-located. The role of the librarian will be explored as outlined in the literature on digital libraries, some studies will be examined that attempt to pu...

Towards Lightweight Digital Library Integration

The Digital Library Integration Infrastructure (DLII) provides a systematic lightweight approach for integrating digital library collections and services. Digital library systems generally require minimal or no changes to their code. Users see a totally integrated environment. They use their digital library system just as before. They also see extra link anchors. Selecting one generates a list ...

Digital Library Service Models and NODAL

New classes of services for digital libraries have been explored in the research community with many now being tested and deployed in real-world settings. Unfortunately, there have been problems, some predicted and some unforeseen, in the development of these services. Moreover, a number of problems have been identified as becoming critical in the future, especially the difficulties associated ...

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