There have been many reports on the construction of digital libraries. We find three shortcomings in many of these reports. (1) They fail to articulate the organizational need for a digital library. (2) They ignore the important operational details in establishing the library, including the end user classroom. (3) They fail to provide any quantitative data concerning the ability of the digital ...

Candy Schwartz is Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5898 ,[email protected].. I t is an understatement to say that the phrase “digital library” (DL) means different things to different people. As part of a class project, students in a digital library course recently found 64 different formal...

This article is an attempt to discuss the establishment of joint use libraries as something more than just administrative collaboration. It focuses on joint use solutions between public libraries and university college libraries. Normative institutionalism is used as a theoretical framework for the discussion, which draws from studies on and experiences of the establishment of two joint use lib...

DO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UNITS HAVE MORE POWER THAN OTHER UNITS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES? Sook Lim Library and Information Science, College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Avenue, #4125. St. Paul, MN 55105 (t) 651 690 6888, (f) 651 690 8724, [email protected] Lim, S. (2007), “Do Information Technology Units Have More Power than Other Units in Academic Libraries?” Journal of the American Society for...

Beyond buildings, collections, and services, the library and information science (LIS) workforce is key to the success of many aspects of a knowledge economy. LIS professionals partner with educators in the instruction of youth and young adults, support reading and information literacy required for productive participation in society over the life course, enable research and development through...

Early in its history and development, there were three types of classical information sciences: computer and information science, library and information science, telecommunications and information science. With the infiltration of the concept of information into various fields, an information discipline community of around 200 members was formed around the sub-fields of information theory or i...

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...

Two major themes continue to be a subject of discussion when dealing with digital libraries: how should the education programs in LIS (Library and Information Science) schools be changed or updated in order to provide the needed knowledge (skills ?) for librarians in the digital age and, closely related, how could the three major memory institutions (libraries, archives and museums) define comm...

Rachel Applegate is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected] Over half of all non-student employees of academic libraries are support staff. What competencies should these workers possess? To what extent are these competencies similar across library departments and across library types—in what ways do they diff...