Chapter 2 Digital libraries: users and services 2.1 User Access to Digital Libraries 2.2 Digital Libraries in Various Institutional Environments 2.2.1 Museums 2.2.2 National libraries 2.2.3 Public libraries and institutions 2.2.4 Research establishments 2.2.5 Teaching and learning establishments 2.3 Personalized Digital Libraries 2.4 Digital Reference Services 2.5 Information Literacy 2.6 Barri...

The attitude of librarians in Nigerian university libraries has the potential to encourage or discourage digital libraries in e-learning. This paper addresses and discusses the attitudes of librarians towards digital library in e-learning, the imperativeness of training and knowledge for effective functionality of digital libraries in Nigerian universities. The paper uses the descriptive survey...

The impact of digital libraries on information processes steadily increases. Today, users may choose from a rapidly increasing number of digital libraries with various characteristics. Business models for digital libraries evolve from mere content providers to sophisticated service suppliers. They offer a rich variety of information services combined with collaboration, e-learning and portal fe...

Over the last decade, there have been significant efforts to develop digital libraries. These efforts, however, largely focused on the building of the technology, telecommunications, and standards (i.e., metadata) infrastructures that enable digital libraries to function technically. More recently, the efforts include the building of digital content that populate digital libraries. Little atten...

At the opening of the twenty-first century, developments of digital libraries have been attracting the attention of many countries and Taiwan is no exception. The purpose of this article lies in delineating recent developments of digital libraries in Taiwan. This article first quotes a definition of a digital library, and based on this definition, an overview of some of the digital library prog...

Purpose – This study aims to understand key features of existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and/or sustaining multilingual information access for digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach was applied to examine four American multilingual digital libraries: Project Gutenberg, Meeting of Frontiers, The International Children’...