Digital libraries [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Fabrice Papy

• Pubblicazione: London, UK, : ISTE Ltd.; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 025.00285; 025.04
• Soggetto topico: Digital libraries; Information storage and retrieval systems
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: PapyFabrice
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Digital Libraries; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. The Growth of the Role of Librarians and Information Officers in Digital Libraries; 1.1. Changes in the world of documentation; 1.1.1. Transformations in society; 1.2. Transformations in the economic situation of libraries; 1.2.1. Too many hits?! The new trend of vague search entries; 1.2.2. The integration of heterogenous services; 1.2.3. The librarian's challenge to reach customer satisfaction; 1.3. Changing a paradigm: changing the object "information"; 1.3.1. Breaking with the traditional way of managing physical objects ; 1.3.1.1. From a manufactured object to information objects1.3.1.2. From an exogenous catalog to endogenous metadata; 1.3.2. New objects in documentation; 1.4. Changing a paradigm: information in a network of documentation; 1.4.1. Information is linked to a network of information; 1.4.2. Processing a high flux of dematerialized information; 1.5. A new way of organizing libraries: the impact of the digital revolution; 1.5.1. Impact on the functioning of a library; 1.5.2. Impact on the concept of information; 1.5.3. Impact on distribution; 1.5.4. Impact on intellectual property; 1.6. New trends ; 1.6.1. Introducing administrative aspects of documentation into the document1.6.2. The librarian's role in the editing process; 1.7. The digital library; 1.7.1. The virtual library; 1.7.2. A "real" library; 1.8. Introducing different layers to the core sector of the profession; 1.8.1. Support for online library users; 1.8.2. Providing training for users; 1.8.3. Managing materialized objects as well as digital documents; 1.9. Broadening skills and responsibilities for all of the library's staff; 1.9.1. Managing old and new techniques simultaneously ; 1.9.2. Increasing qualifications and responsibilitiesChapter 2. The Tao of the Digital Library: A Library Without a Librarian?; 2.1. The technological supremacy of the concept of the "digital library"; 2.2. TSI's influence on the market; 2.3. The virtualization of a document's function; 2.4. Development and changes to job profiles in the CNRS directory 1982-2002; 2.5. Supporting professions - the INIST approach; 2.6. A new job profile is emerging - the e-serials librarian; 2.7. Developments in training requirements - the UKSG workshops 1990-2004; 2.8. "He who takes the longest strides..." ; 2.9. BibliographyChapter 3. The Reader Faced with a Digital Library: the Experience of the Pasteur Institute; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Which services should be aimed at what kind of audience?; 3.2.1. Content; 3.2.1.1. Internal sources; 3.2.1.2. External sources; 3.2.1.3. Limiting the access of resources to a specific group; 3.2.2. Services; 3.2.2.1. Simplified multisource search - different kinds of sources are merged together; 3.2.2.2. Multifield search in a single database ; 3.2.2.3. Keeping up to date with new information, information strands and saving a personal profile of electronic search entries
• Sommario/riassunto: Of vital interest to all librarians and information specialists, this book presents all aspects of the effects of digitization of today's and tomorrow's libraries. From social to technical issues, Digital Libraries includes chapters on the growth of the role of librarian, the reader experience, cataloging, search engines, OPAC, law, ergonomic studies, and the future of libraries.
• Titolo autorizzato: Digital libraries
• ISBN: 1-282-16513-5; 9786612165139; 0-470-61130-8; 0-470-39392-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139467403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ISTE