Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives

Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives

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Release Date: March, 2010|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 378
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-767-1
ISBN13: 9781615207671|ISBN10: 1615207678|EISBN13: 9781615207688
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Description:

The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation.

Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives presents a compilation of articles discussing the benefits and challenges of digital information and library digitization. Scholars from around the globe investigate web application development, techniques for digital conversion, composition of digital libraries, digital environments, and much more. This reference work proves valuable to the study and enhancement of digital information systems and technologies, and in assisting practitioners in the implementation and building of such systems and applications.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Bridging the Digital Divide
  • Collaborative Digital Library Development
  • Digital Conversion
  • Digital Preservation
  • E-Governance
  • Intellectual Property Rights
  • Open Source Software
  • Services in the Digital Environment
  • Sustainable Digital Libraries
  • Web 2.0
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Tariq Ashraf is M.A. in Political Science from Hindu College, University of Delhi and holds PG and Doctoral degrees in Library & Information Science from the Department of Library & Information Science, University of Delhi. Currently with University of Delhi, he has earlier worked at institutions like the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, and the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. A regular contributor to LIS literature and research, Dr. Ashraf is twice winner of the international paper contest held by American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST).
Jaideep Sharma is a gold medalist from University of Delhi and is currently Associate Professor at Indira Gandhi National Open University. He is an expert in the areas of Information Literacy and Competencies Programmes and recognized as a key resource person in these areas. As a keen researcher, he has widely contributed to several scholarly journals of repute. Dr.Sharma is associated with prestigious online course of IGNOU and regularly anchors programmes for the distant and e- learners.
Puja Anand Gulati, an M.Phil. in Library & Information Science, is currently with Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of University of Delhi and has been associated previously with UNICEF and British Council, New Delhi. Ms. Gulati is an extensively ICT trained person and is credited with successful implementation of several library modernization projects. She regularly contributes to LIS literature and is an active library professionals associated with several prestigious associations and organisations.
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