The Domain and Its Origins This is the third time that digital libraries have been the primary focus of a chapter in the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) and, not surprisingly, it reflects a third perspective. Five years ago, Fox and Urs (2002) reported on the literature of the digital library largely as an engineering construct and a research domain. A few years earl...

Azra Daei, Ali Sadeghzadeh Vaighan, Sona Tayebi Imani, Hassan Ashrafi rizi. Ph.D. Student in medical library and information science, Isfahan University of Medical science, Isfahan, Iran; Ph.D. in library and information science, National Library and Archives of Iran; MSc Student in medical library and information science, Isfahan University of Medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Health Informatio...

BACKGROUND Medical education in pathology and histology in low-resource countries face many obstacles because of equipment cost and telecommunication deficiencies. Digital Pathology may provide solutions. We report student experience to virtual slides on a local network and a remote image server. METHODS Using an iPad tablet device, fifty 3rd and 4th year medical students viewed digital patho...

Digital libraries (DL) serve communities of people and are created and maintained by and for people. People and their information needs are central to all libraries, digital or otherwise. All efforts to design, implement, and evaluate digital libraries must be rooted in the information needs, characteristics, and contexts of the people who will or may use those libraries. Like most principles, ...

We present the results of a questionnaire survey for the access and reproduction policies of 67 digital collections in 34 libraries (national, academic, public, special etc) from 13 countries. We examine and analyze the above policies in relation to specific factors, such as, the acquisition method, copyright ownership, library type (national, academic, etc.), content creation (digitized, born-...

This paper briefly introduces the context and major functions of Digital Preservation Center of National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSLC), and describes its digital preservation system, as well as its preservation services and future work.

This paper examines the domain of digital reference services for and by the primary and secondary education community. Data is provided to demonstrate the current understanding of education question types and education users in digital reference. It is believed this data will be of wide utility for digital library builders geared toward primary and secondary users (K-12) such as the Internation...