Automated Digital Libraries : how effectively can computers be used for the skilled tasks of professional librarianship?

Publié le 7 février 2008 par mel

Title: Automated Digital Libraries: how Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?
Autor: William Y. Arms
Identifier: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/arms/07arms.html
Date: July/August 2000
Description: this article presents advantages of automated digital libraries, concerning the research of information.
Subject: automated digital libraries, advantage, cost, research, librarianship
Format: html
Type: text
Language: English
Relation:

- J. C. R. Licklider, Libraries of the Future. MIT Press, 1965.
- Edward A. Feigenbaum (Editor), Julian Feldman (Editor), Computers and Thought. MIT Press, 1963.
· Gerald Salton and Michael J. McGill. Introduction to modern information retrieval. McGraw-Hill, 1983.
· Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine. Proceedings of WWW7, Australia, 1998.
· Wactlar, H., Christel, M., Gong, Y., Hauptmann, A. Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library. IEEE Computer 32(2): 66-73, 1999.

Publisher: http://www.dlib.org/

Abstract of the article:

"Libraries are expensive and research libraries are particularly expensive. Even in the United States, few people can afford good access to primary scientific, medical, legal and scholarly information. Members of major universities have excellent library services. So do people who work in teaching hospitals, or for drug companies or rich law firms. Others have access to information only through the tedious, inefficient system of interlibrary lending. In less affluent countries the situation is worse; even the best universities cannot afford good libraries. Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation?"