This paper investigates how information resources are shared electronically between libraries at the national level in China. It examines the digital library project related issues for both information policy and information-technology. Issues pertaining to information policy include cooperation and collaboration between information service providers, collection development, intellectual proper...

In this paper, we describe our ongoing work which involves examining the information seeking behaviour of legal professionals. This work involves studying the behaviour of both academic and practicing lawyers with the long-term aim of integrating user-centred legal information seeking support into digital law libraries. We report preliminary findings from the initial phase of the study, which c...

This paper provides an overview of a case study research that investigated the use of Digital Library (DL) resources in two undergraduate classes and explored faculty and students’ perceptions of educational digital libraries. This study found that students and faculty use academic DLs primarily for textual resources, but turn to the open Web for visual and multimedia resources. The study parti...

Abstract : Librarian competences in the era of digital communication are determined by environment and problems that librarians have to solve nearest future. The identify their role learn new for society based upon information when traditional library faded. author examines various approaches concepts competence, competency competence approach. reviews ideas nature, structure ways librarian dev...

The paper reports on a study of the ways in which Canadian digital library collections make use of knowledge organization systems to support users’ information search behaviour. The study identified 33 digital collections which have employed some type of knowledge organization system in their search interfaces. Résumé : Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude sur la manière dont les syst...