Library digitization on a global basis is essential in the twenty-first century. The digital library development initiatives in most countries depend substantially on their national libraries. This chapter focuses on an overview of how national libraries of 14 countries in the Asia-Pacific region are involved in digital library initiatives. Most libraries participate in the collaborative effort...

The constantly increasing volume of information available on the Internet is changing the forms of classification and access to data. Given the immense collection of information stored 2 on the Internet, Digital Libraries constitute a fundamental subject of research. Among the challenges of classifying, locating and accessing knowledge in Digital Libraries tackling with the huge amount of resou...

hence of what they can do in those libraries, is encapsulated in their “mental models” of those libraries. In this article, we present a focused case study of users’ mental models of traditional and digital libraries based on observations and interviews with eight participants. It was found that a poor understanding of access restrictions led to risk-averse behavior, whereas a poor understandin...

In the ever-burgeoning field of information overload and information retrieval, how we organize digital documents into libraries becomes increasing important. Digital libraries can encompass electronic collections of essentially print documents or they can be libraries of documents which have never been printed. More likely digital libraries are an amalgam of formal and informal writing, as wel...

The Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact is the single academic reference work to provide comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this in-depth collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection o...

Usage and user feedback about a state digital library, in which the developers/designers, content providers, different types of libraries and their staffs, and a variety of user groups represent a loose federation of separate organizations with diverse expectations and needs, are investigated. Through corroboratory evidence from usage statistics of Internet-based database services available thr...

The present chapter introduces digital library services’ utilization through handheld devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and smartphones. It argues that handheld devices proliferation justifies the term digital library in terms of anywhere-anytime access, and retrieval and management of information. Furthermore, these devices constitute powerful information harvesting tools tha...

the explosion of information communication technology (ict) since the beginning of the 20 th century has been rendering manual-based library system in academic, research, special and public libraries less relevant. this is because using and implementing information communication technology in the library depend largely on the librarian attitude toward the current digital age. this study examine...

This article presents an approach to a conceptual framework for understanding the concept of digital libraries. A typology of digital library research is described, based on Yates’ model of information work, and comprising three interlinked domains: informational, technological and social. A conceptual framework for digital libraries, or complex libraries in Walt Crawford’s (1999) terminology, ...