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...

This paper describes the digital library of historical resources, a research project which involves building a testbed for the purpose of developing and testing new collaborative digital library functionality and presents an initial analysis of the digital library’s public use on the web. The digital library is modeled to focus on serving secondary students information needs in conducting histo...

G-Portal is a georeferenced and geospatial digital library that aims to identify, classify and organize geospatial and georeferenced resources on the web and to provide digital library services for these resources. Annotation service is supported in G-Portal to enable users to contribute content to the digital library. In this paper, we present a resource annotation framework for georeferenced ...

The Digital Assets Repository (DAR) is a system developed at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Library of Alexandria, to create and maintain the digital library collections. The system introduces a data model capable of associating the metadata of different types of resources with the content such that searching and retrieval can be done efficiently. The system automates the digitization process...

abstract: purpose: this paper aims to discuss different aspects of development and increaseding library fundsing is throughbased on service fees. it also attemps to and identifying solutions in this fieldmatter. methodology: in this paper, factors such as the type of library, services, environments and facilities in order needed to develop and implement strategies to for increasing the financia...

Community memory can provide the crucial bridge between large-scale information bases like digital libraries and the day-to-day activities of a community’s members. Just as a digital library is based on a general structure and conventional means of access to diverse collections of materials, a community memory culls and shapes the structure of this collection to meet more particular needs; it p...

Abstract: Software agent based on the learning resource in digital library development is described in this work. Using of distance learning technology standards and agent technologies provides ability of creation informationaleducational environment in the internet. IEEE 1484.12.1 “Standard for Learning Object Metadata” allows organizing common access to the educational materials on the learni...