“there is a huge difference between providing access to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services.”
I find it interesting how Google fits into all this – I personally think Google, for general search on the web, lacks a real competitor (I would never use anything else). I find Google scholar to be quite cumbersome, however. I wonder if this has to do with something in this article which I didn’t understand: “metadata searching vs. full-text searching.”
- Does this simply mean the searching of metadata vs. the searching of metadata + the rest of the information source in full?
- Does Google Scholar perform a metadata search or full-text?
1994 National Science Foundation launched Digital Libraries Initiative.
Brought together librarians and computer scientists
“While information accession now rests on a highly technical infrastructure, the core function of librarianship remains. The information must be organized, collated, and presented.”
Interesting that Computer Scientists now seem to count on librarians for publishing and organizing of their scholarly material, and that this may be the road for other disciplines.
“The development of free,
publicly accessible journal article collections in disciplines such as high-energy
physics has demonstrated ways in which the network can change scholarly
communication by altering dissemination and access patterns; separately, the
development of a series of extraordinary digital works had at least suggested
the potential of creative authorship specifically for the digital medium to
transform the presentation and transmission of scholarship.”
DSpace is a model institutional repository system
This is exciting to me as a student and library professional in general, but I wonder how it applies to public libraries…
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