Digital Libraries: Electronic Bibliographic Resources on Basic Education

Interacting with information resources: digital libraries for education

This paper reviews the capabilities of libraries for supporting learning. We consider the various roles traditional libraries play and how they are being transformed into digital information repositories. Effective strategies for deploying digital libraries will retain the strengths of traditional libraries while exploiting new possibilities offered by the digital medium.

Electronic Books in Digital Libraries

Electronic book is an application with a multimedia database of instructional resources, which include hyperlinked text, instructor’s audio/video clips, slides, animation, still images, etc. as well as contentbased information about these data, and metadata such as annotations, tags, and cross-referencing information. Electronic books in the Internet or on CDs today are not easy to learn from. ...

Personalizing Digital Libraries for Education

E-Learning Systems enable students to work with electronic teaching materials, to join online courses, to pass tests, and to communicate with other students or instructors. An important requirement of this systems is the integration of external knowledge management resources into them. The digital libraries are helpful to this purpose because materials of many digital libraries are valuable for...

" Libraries , metadata and preservation of electronic resources "

Augmenting small specialist libraries with digital resources

We show that small, specialist libraries (SSLs) can play different organisational roles and serve their users in a different way to more standard academic or commercial libraries. Most digital library (DL) frameworks and models are essentially based on surrogating the services that academic or commercial libraries supply, and so such frameworks may not be applicable to SSLs. This paper discusse...