From heterogeneous information spaces to virtual documents p. 11 Traveling in digital archive world : sightseeing metaphor framework for enhancing user experiences in digital libraries p. 23 Flexing digital library systems p. 33 An ontology-based model of digital libraries p. 38 The impact of ICT on library services for the visually impaired p. 44 An Asian study of healthcare Web portals : impl...

digital libraries offer opportunities for e-learning that are not possible in their physical counterparts. digital libraries complement other learning environments, such as those provided in distance education and courses offered online. like e-learning environments, they provide flexibility of time and place. digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources to support e-le...

Nicholson, S. (2003). Bibliomining for automated collection development in a digital library setting: Using data mining to discover web-based scholarly research works. 0. ABSTRACT This research creates an intelligent agent for automated collection development in a digital library setting. It uses a predictive model based on facets of each Web page to select scholarly works. The criteria came fr...

Various studies have reported that achieving effective use of increasingly heterogeneous scholarly objects within institutional learning and teaching frameworks is becoming critical to the performance of educational institutions. The integration of digital information environments, such as a University library, within a virtual learning environment (VLE) encapsulates this challenge. This paper ...

Sheila Corrall is Professor and Chair of the Library & Information Science program at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches courses on research methods and academic libraries. Her research interests include the application of business management concepts to library and information services, collection development in the digital world, and the evolving roles and competencies of librari...

Project MeDoc has built the nucleus of a digital library for computer science literature, including multimedia offerings. The libary is operated as a network of distributed servers and is available for use by the German academic community. A set of tools has been developed to administer journals and books as copyrighted material and to give users a uniform access to the library itself, as well ...