projects, applications, research in many countries
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 description and URLs for all sources, projects, and examples in the lecture can be found at: http://scils.rutgers.edu/~tefko/D_
LibEdu_home.htm
 in the slides these are in
& bold italics
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Libraries in the digital age are changing to new forms AND functions throughout the world
 part is evolution
 from old to new
 part is revolution
 very, very new
Effects on libraries are profound and large everywhere
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 to some degree the same throughout the developed world
 emergence of the digital information systems
 online bibliographic & numeric databases for searching
 online catalog followed by
 electronic reference databases
 full-text digital articles and journals
 digitization & creation of digital collections
 AND: new forms of scholarly communication
 e-publications, & e-archives in many fields
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 same all over
 all on networks, and most distributed (stored) all over
 Internet – as network
 Web – as from of realization
 constant changes
 tails that wags the dog
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 majority following the same principles
 but adjusted to different concepts, cultures, needs, ideologies
 AND economic conditions
 digitization strategies:
 include various special, unique collections, e.g. American
Memory , Perseus
 repeated in many places throughout the world
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 two distinct, unrelated worlds:
 research
 agenda formulated by computer science
 exemplified by Digital Libraries
Initiatives

 funded by NSF, NASA, DARPA, NIH, etc practice
 agenda formulated by large libraries and library associations
 exemplified by LoC, DLF academic libraries, as
, & large
Berkeley
 funded by federal, state and institutional funds, foundations, contributions …
 large expenditures over years in each
 particularly increasing in practice
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 to some extent similar to US
 in research: project DELOS Network of Excelence on Digital Libraries
 European research and educational program; many projects throughout EU
 agenda also set by computer science
 funded through EU budget – lots of euros.
 practice: each country sets its own agenda
 leaders national libraries, academic libraries – large universities
 funded through national projects
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 UKOLN. The UK Office for
Library and Information
Networking
 “national focus of expertise in digital information management”
 funds various big & small practical projects
 Electronic Libraries Programme
(eLib)
 Strathclyde University, Centre for Digital Library Research -
BUBL Information Service
 The Stories on the Web
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 GLOBAL INFO - The German
Digital Library Project
 coordinates, plans
 developing structure for scientific dl’s
 behind UK efforts
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 Canadian Initiative on
Digital Libraries (CIDL)
 alliance for improving dl’s
 some projects, more planning
 not much overall
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 The New Zealand Digital
Library
 several demonstration collections in various fields
 free software they developed
 impressive effort
 NZ also has strong research in digitization - music
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 IFLA – largest, with many international sources
 incl. DIGLIB – mailing list & archive
 section on digital libraries
 International Coalition of
Library Consortia (ICOLC)
 over 150 consortia around the world
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 academic libraries
 Cambridge University
Library, U.K.
 Oxford University, U.K. -
Bodley Library
 unique historical collections
 public libraries
 Toronto Public Library -
Canada
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 national libraries
 Die Deutsche Bibliothek -
National Library of Germany
 Bibliothèque Nationale de
France - National Library of
France
 specialized national collections
 not very impressive compared to LoC
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 international efforts
 Virtual Library - Switzerland,
US, UK & other countries
 original Web library
 Public Library of Science
 advocacy of open access
 reaction to high journal prices
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 every country has own search engines – listed at
 Search Engines Worldwide http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/search.html
 1300 search engines from 170 countries
 lists of libraries internationally
 LoC Global Libraries
 national libraries
 Libweb, Sunsite Berkeley
 library servers 100 countries
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 journals
 Ariadne , UK, current developments
 IFLA Journal - wealth of news
 International Journal on
Digital Libraries – scholarly
 & as always: D-Lib Magazine
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