purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the information poverty of post graduate students of birjand university with respect to its 4 indicators (information overload, information vacuum, information inequality, and digital divide) and the role of globalization in information poverty from their point of view. methodology: this study was a descriptive survey. the population consisted o...

• Technology obsolescence • Very large quantities of digital information that may be worth preserving for reuse • Heterogeneous and complex digital resources • Lack of scalable methods for preservation • Economic models What is at stake? What is at stake? • Investments in conversion of information to digital form • Preservation of an increasing share of information that is " born-digital " • Ab...

At the moment it is not very common to actively work with material stored on an Internet server system. Once the right information resource is found, only passive information consumption of documents is provided by a majority of information systems. While this is appropriate for a kind of reading material, this is a limitation for scientific articles. Scientific articles are often read more tha...

The paper discusses the design, development and evaluation of a task-based digital library, the Digital Work Environment (DWE), for the academic community of higher education institutions (HEI) with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a test case. Three different information organisation approaches (alphabetical, subject category and task-based) were used to organise the wide range ...

Purpose – Digital libraries have the potential to offer unprecedented resources for supporting e-learning. This paper addresses and discusses such aspects as what is meant by “e-learning”, and how can it be supported by the library environment, the functionality of the digital library; and how e-learning resources are included and organized in the digital library. Design/methodology/approach – ...