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...

introduction: the goal of integration of digital libraries (dl) is to utilize various autonomous dls in concert to provide knowledge from such island-dls. integrated digital libraries (idls) appeared after the emergence of dls in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. the ministry of health and medical education (mhme) of...

digital preservation refers to an important aspect that most iranian digital library initiatives lack. this component is security. while a digital library may be misconceived as an information supply space without a physical form, the same security concerns in force for operation of physical library are valid. unlike the analog materials, all digital copies of digital materials are original. a ...

This article describes how a small liberal arts college library created a digital library using existing staff and financial resources. The Hekman Digital Archive (HDA) was created using a digital media archive module of the library’s integrated library system, and is maintained by one library staff member with the help of numerous student assistants.