Supporting digital scholarship in the academic library

PADLs: supporting digital scholarship in digital libraries

This paper introduces digital scholarship: aprocess inwhich individuals perform all scholarly work electronically, working entirely with digital media. A proposal is made for patron-augmenteddigital libraries (PADLs): a class of digital libraries designed to support the digital scholarship of its patrons. PADLs not only provide facilities for search and retrieval of library artefacts, but also ...

Supporting Information Structuring in a Digital Library

In this paper we present Garnet, a spatial hypertext interface to a digital library. Spatial hypertext systems support information structuring – the organisation of documents performed by a user to complement their information seeking. In the past, spatial hypertext systems have suffered from poor connectivity with information sources such as digital libraries. Conversely, digital libraries hav...

Promoting Open Digital Scholarship: A Canadian Library Perspective

Supporting collocation learning with a digital library

Extensive knowledge of collocations is a key factor that distinguishes learners from fluent native speakers. Such knowledge is difficult to acquire simply because there is so much of it. This paper describes a system that exploits the facilities offered by digital libraries to provide a rich collocation-learning environment. The design is based on three processes that have been identified as le...

The Integration of Digital Library Services in an Academic Environment

Introduction The topic of this paper is the integration of digital library services in an academic environment. A model of library-customer integration developed at Linköping University is presented. We also discuss how new academic library models based on the new digital information environment interfere with traditional principles of library work in a way that challenge core values in the rol...