In this paper, we describe a repository for architectural 3D-CAD models which is currently set up at the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover as part of the larger German PROBADO digital library initiative: The proposed PROBADO-framework is integrating different types of multimedia content-repositories and adding features available in text-based digital libraries. A...

after passing more than one decade of appearance of digital libraries in iran, they couldn’t meet their real mission, which is responding to audience needs. surely, this problem is affected by potentially and real factors. so this research wants to recognize resistant factors and driving factors by recourse oriented approach, and then to fit them in integrated model.research method which we app...

The Greenstone digital library software is widely used for small to medium digital library collections, but its reputation for creating very large collections is less well established. This paper describes how Greenstone is being used to produce large newspaper collections for the National Libraries of New Zealand and Singapore, respectively. It also describes current developments that integrat...

This paper describes the engagement of intergenerational partners in the design of a digital library of geographical resources (GeogDL) to prepare Singapore students to take a national examination in geography. GeogDL is built on top of G-Portal, a digital library providing services over geospatial and georeferenced Web content. Scenario-based design and claims analysis were employed as a means...

When a local medical library is not available, it is often necessary for physicians to discover alternate ways to receive medical information. Rural physicians, particularly, can make use of a computer program called Grateful Med that provides access to the same literature available to physicians in large cities. This program permits the user to perform database searches on the National Library...

With the introduction of NSDL 2.0, the National Science Digital Library project has created a platform that supports the collaborative creation and dissemination of context around the high quality resources in the library. This paper describes how we are extending and modifying standard, open-source Web 2.0 social networking and collaboration tools, such as wikis and blogs, to allow library use...

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...

The key ideas embodied in the notion of the Virtual Library are that: the library contains many types of information in different forms, and particularly in forms other than paper; all this information must be accessible to users located not at the physical library but in their homes, schools, hospitals or clinics; this information travel quickly to the users who need it; and one must be able t...

Meeting Barbara Epstein, AHIP, FMLA, for the first time at the 2010 Medical Library Association (MLA) annual meeting in Washington, DC, was very memorable. That was the meeting that cardboard cutouts of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greeted everyone at the top of the Hilton Washington escalator. It was also the meeting that Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. made an appearance at...

B rewster Kahle, creator of the Internet Archive (www. archive.org)—a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form—has been inspirational in discussing the Internet's potential to become a modern Library of Alexandria. He campaigns for a resource that makes all of humanity's knowledge available to all of humanity. The Internet certainly provides a number of res...