Diffusing knowledge management practices within an organization encourages and facilitates reuse of the institution's knowledge commodity. Following knowledge management practices, the Eskind Biomedical Library (EBL) has created a Digital Library that uses a holistic approach for integration of information and skills to best represent both explicit and tacit knowledge inherent in libraries. EBL...

During the latter part of the 1990s the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided support for a series of workshops to explore and capture the perspectives of a wide variety of potential stakeholders about what a national digital library for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education might “look like,” how it might be supported, who would be the audience, and how it mig...

We describe work leading toward specification of a technical architecture for the National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL). This includes a technical scope and a functional model, with some elaboration on the particularly rich set of library services that NSDL is expected eventually to encompass.

The Maryland Electronic Learning Community (www.learn.umd.edu) is building a multimedia digital library of educational resources. Now in the fourth year of the project, we evaluate early decisions we made about segmenting and indexing videos. We also discuss an experiment in encouraging collaborative community indexing with a Quick Indexing Tool. We conclude that a broader base of users would b...

The characteristics of environmental data present a challenge to the providers of this type of information. Both the wide variety of data types and the large size that typify environmental data objects combine to make it especially difficult to manage. Digital library technology shows promise for the management of environmental data. This paper surveys numerous environmental digital library and...

The problems that illiteracy poses in accessing information are gaining attention from the research community. Issues currently being explored include developing an understanding of the barriers to information acquisition experienced by different groups of illiterate information seekers; creating technology, such as software interfaces, that support illiterate users effectively; and tailoring c...

Nowadays, the construction and application of digital library leads a new era of the way people obtain knowledge and information, and promotes the academic exchanges and social progress. Digital library, however, also involves great risk; hacker attacks become the main threat of the information security of digital library, and may probably cause the loss and damage of the information resources ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the importance of beginning digital preservation efforts with restricted resources. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case study approach, which is enhanced by advice from national experts in digital preservation. Findings – This paper details how Milner Library digital preservation advocates have approached the task by seeking ...

In September 2001, the University of Virginia was awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop the first digital object repository management system based on the Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) [1]. The Digital Library Research Group at Cornell University originally developed Fedora under a National Science Foundation Grant [1-3]. Fedor...

introduction: academic libraries are famous to be the hearts of universities, with the ever increasing importance of the evaluation of information technologies in academic centers, and libraries need to evaluate their status to accord with these conditions. the aim of this research is to provide an evaluation relating to the conditions of tabriz university of medical science libraries, and coll...