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Bibliographic description
KUNY Terry, CLEVELAND Gary. The Digital Library : myths and challenges. IFLA Journal [online]1998, vol. 24, n. 2,[visited 10 April 2007] Available from : http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-kuny.pdf
Extract
“The purpose of this paper is simple: it is a provocation. It aims to rebut the technolust and rhetorical excess that has characterized much of the reporting on "digital libraries." The polemic here aspires to provide a corrective to the reporting that is whipped up by the technology companies, politicians, and Wired magazine¾the same forces that gave us the "paperless office" and predict the "demise of the book." But it does not suggest that "digital libraries" are a waste of time and money. There is no call for a neo-Luddite uprising against "digital libraries" developments and technology. But the polemic tone is intended, for a call-to-arms is needed in the library community to meet the challenges of "digital libraries"¾and we must attempt to recognize these challenges clearly. To further this process, a suggestion for a new focus in the pursuit of "digital libraries" is suggested which present a renewed role for librarians in the digital future.”
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“If librarians and information professionals are going to progress into the 21st century then a clear and effective "digital library" model for library services and development will be increasingly important. An increasingly complex technological, social, legal, and economic environment defines many boundaries within which "digital library" services will evolve. Librarians may discover that "libraries-without-walls" are actually only libraries with new walls technologically bounded, legally restricted, and administratively hamstrung. The "digital library" may be equally impenetrable and as profoundly limiting to their patrons as the physical library which techno-pundits would suggest digital collections are intended to replace. “ [...]
Metadata
DC Title : The Digital Library : myths and challenges
DC Creator : KUNY Terry, CLEVELAND Gary
DC Subject : digital libraries, librarians, myths, Internet, retrieval, preservation, cost of digital libraries, access, collections, copyright
DC Description : “Technological progress has changed how libraries do their work, not why. The most profound technological development, a connection of computer to computer in an unbroken chain around the world, may alter the fundamental concept of the library in the 21st century. However, that technology will not substantially alter the business of librarians - connecting people with information. If librarians and information professionals are going to progress into the 21st century, then a clear and effective digital library for library services and development will be increasingly important. The article exposes some myths that permeate the popular press reporting about digital libraries, and sets the stage for a closer examination of the significant challenges to digital library development.”
Table of content
Myth
Myth 1: The Internet is the digital library.
Myth 2: The myth of a single digital library or one-window view of digital library
collections.
Myth 3: Digital libraries will provide more equitable access, anywhere, any time.
Myth 4: Digital libraries will be cheaper than print libraries.
Challenges
Resource Discovery
Digital Collection Development
Preservation
Digital Library Administration
Copyright and Licensing
Cost
Conclusion: Rethinking Digital Libraries, Reinventing Librarians
DC Publisher : International Federation of Library Associations Journal
DC Contributor :
DC Date : 1998
DC Type : texte
DC Format : pdf
DC Identifier : http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla62/62-kuny.pdf
DC Source :
DC Language : en
DC Relation :
DC Coverage : world
DC Right : reserved, IFLA.
Source of abstract : http://www.ifla.org/V/iflaj/2402abs.pdf
