Interoperability issues pose a barrier to sharing and exchanging information among digital libraries and repositories. This is due to the use of diverse metadata standards, and their different degrees of generality or specificity. This causes loss of information at all metadata model levels (e.g., schema, schema language, record, and repository). As a possible solution, the roles for a Common T...

as much discussed in literature, the creation of digital libraries should be informed by user requirements and behaviors (soergel, 2002). according to researchers, the best designs for children come from children .this study describes how the iranian children use a digital library (icdl). this work was done in order to explore and discover new directions for the development of children digital ...

Purpose—This study has two primary purposes: (1) exploring common copyright-related problems that arise when librarians promote the use of digital library resources, and (2) investigating college students’ misconceptions of copyright laws that arise when the students use these resources. Design/methodology/approach—(1) Focus-group interview of librarians: four librarians in charge of the manage...

We report findings from the initial phase of our study on legal information seeking, which comprised a series of semistructured interviews and naturalistic observations of academic law students and staff looking for electronic legal information. This study has the long-term aim of informing the design of digital law libraries. Participants found it difficult to use digital law libraries, arisin...

Additional copies are available for $20 per copy. Orders must be placed online through CLIR's Web site. Denise Troll Covey is associate university librarian of arts, archives, and technology at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2000-2001 she was also a distinguished fellow in the Digital Library Federation, leading the initiative on usage, usability, and user support. Her professional work focuses...