Creative Centers: Libraries, the Digital Gap, and Blooms Taxonomy Model

Digital libraries for creative communities

Digital library technologies have a great deal to offer to creative, design communities. They can enable large collections of text, images, music, video and other information object to be organized and accessed in interesting and diverse ways. Ordinary people – people not traditionally viewed as “creators” or “designers” – can now conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information colle...

The Role of Digital Libraries and Information Centers in E-Learning

Digital Divide: How Can Digital Libraries Bridge the Gap?

Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have, while making our life easier, created a social divide that is known as the digital divide. Statistics show that there are significant disparities among the population in the developed and developing world in terms of the accessibility to, and use of, ICT. Research and development in digital libraries do not only requi...

Closing the Gap Between Formal and Digital Libraries of Mathematics

The representational gap between formal mathematics and most users of digital mathematics resources is a challenge for any approach to mathematical knowledge management which aims to combine the benefits of formal and informal mathematics. In this chapter we study this gap in the context of a digital library of mathematics based on the Mizar Mathematical Library and make recommendations for imp...

Digital school libraries

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highly affected the people anywhere in the world. Iran has also been highly affected by this disease. We do not know if it is either a man-made or natural disease, which is beyond the scope of this paper. In any case, each disaster has two sides and brings both limitations and opportunities, and we must try our best to change the limitations into opportunitie...