Digital Library Education in Europe

Core Topics in Digital Library Education

Modern societies are producing and consuming an enormous amount of information every day. The need for quality organized information has been growing rapidly. Various digital libraries (DLs) have been developed to address this need. However, additional focus on education for people who design and administer digital libraries is needed. We can begin to solve this problem through development of c...

Education for digital libraries: library management perspective

The paper examines three Master’s programmes in digital libraries: Digital Library Learning (Oslo University College, Tallinn University, and University of Parma), Digital Library and Information Services, and Digital services – culture, information and communication (Swedish School of Library and Information Science). The author uses her direct experience of developing one of the programmes, c...

Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development for Digital Library Education

The Virginia Tech (VT) Department of Computer Science (CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) School of Information and Library Science (LIS) are developing curricular materials for digital library (DL) education, appropriate for the CS and LIS communities. Educational modules will be designed, based on input from the project advisory board, Computing Curriculum 2001, ...

Library Automation in Europe

copyright in digital library

human advancements in science and technology have also developed to libraries leading to the emergence of the phenomenon of the digital libraries. therefore, authors decided to open the new view in the development of science and technology by examining both the copyright and digital library. it seems that in the digital library we must distinguish between two types of public and private librari...