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One time each year for the past several years, D-Lib Magazine has collaborated with a guest editor to produce a special issue on a particular theme. This year’s special issue is on the topic of digital library evolution, and the guest editor is Dr. Gregory Crane, Tufts University. Read the Full Story
EC studies copyright issues of putting 6m books onlineRead the Full Story
Move over textbooks: Spontaneous, course-generated content may be edging you out.Read the Full Story
As digital repositories continue to evolve, keep your eye on these projects. They may serve as the models for your own digitization initiatives. Read on!Read the Full Story
FREEPORT – The number of high school students across the country, in Illinois and throughout the area taking advanced placement courses has steadily increased over the years, and officials from every level of government have expressed a desire to see that trend continue.Read the Full Story
I recently had dinner with friends and former colleagues who work in the information center of a major research and development organization. We discussed the changes that have taken place in the center over the past few years as a result of the increasing quantity and quality of information resources available in digital format. Looking […]
Based on a variety of calibrations1, we are now in the adolescence of digital libraries. Like any adolescence, there is reason for optimism and concern.The optimism comes from the successes resulting from a decade of research, development, and deployment. Any list of these is inevitably incomplete, but certainly includes Google2, the Handle System® 3, Dublin […]
AbstractResource and collection “quality” is becoming an increasingly important topic for educational digital libraries. Computational models of quality and automated approaches for computing the quality of digital resources are necessary components of next generation cognitive tools aimed at supporting collection curators in making quality decisions. This research identifies and computes metrics for 16 quality indicators […]
October 4, 2005, ALEXANDRIA, VA – Following a nationwide search, PBS has appointed veteran journalist Michael Getler as Ombudsman, a newly created position. As an independent internal critic, Mr. Getler will seek to ensure that PBS upholds its own rigorous standards of journalistic ethics for both online and on-air content. His reports and commentary will […]
Digital libraries are not new, but open source, video, and collaborative digital repositories are changing the face of library science.Read the Full Story
