Digital Library
Dear Nenad,
Here are some links that you might want to check out. They'll give you an overview of some of the projects going on right now in digital libraries. One of the really interesting things about the library community is that it is both very conservative and very radical at the same time. Conservative, because it is organized around very traditional values: preserving intellectual and cultural knowledge. Radical, because the community is committed to the open access of information. The library community shares everything it learns and develops among its members. It operates for the most part in a non-profit, non-competitive framework, even though there are a lot of problems in libraries, mainly having to do with funding.
One of the organizers of the Libraries in the Digital Age Conference, Tatjana Aparac. is going to be in the U.S in mid-November for a few weeks at a conference and giving presentations.
All my best,
Marta
http://pirate.shu.edu/~deyrupma
Projects
National Digital Library Project
http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/
An ambitious project, funded by the U.S. government to digitize major library collections in the United States and to create new kinds of tools for organizing, retrieving, displaying Web materials. In its second phase.
American Council of Learned Societies E-book project
http://www.historyebook.org/intro.html
Collaboration among scholars, publishers and librarians to put online important books of historical scholarship. Funded by the Mellon Foundation
European Union Library Projects
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov00/raitt.htm
Description of digital library projects that have or will be completed in Europe
Journals
Two online magazines focused on digital libraries. You can get a sense of what kind of issues IT researchers/librarians are involved in
Ariadne from the UK
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
Dlib from the US
http://www.dlib.org
Organizations
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/work/alaction2005.html
The organization's goals for the next 3 years
Knjiznicarstvo I informacijske znanosti
http://knjiznica.irb.hr/hrv/znanost/knjiznicarstvo/index.html
Information about Croatian LIS activities
Op-ed
Digital library is one of the main future goals ofCROWN.
"Knjiski moljac" is term that disappeared.Librarians are on the cutting edge of today's technology and progress. Veryimpressive.
NB
