The explosion in Internet usage and huge government funding initiatives in digital libraries have drawn attention to research on digital libraries. Whereas the traditional focus of digital library research has been on the technological development, there is now a call for user-focused research. Although millions of dollars have been spent on building “usable” systems, research on digital librar...

The dLibra Digital Library Framework (http://dlibra.psnc.pl/) is a Polish digital library software platform developed by Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center as a part of the PIONIER programme (http://www.pionier.gov.pl/). The dLibra project was started in 1999, as a part of research in the field of digital libraries started in PSNC in 1996. The developed platform is currently the most p...

A preliminary framework, termed as DL2Go, that enables editable and portable personal digital libraries is presented. For mobile offline users of digital libraries, DL2Go can: (1) package digital libraries into mobile storage devices such as flash drives, along with needed application softwares (e.g., wiki and DBMS), (2) (de-)compress contents of digital libraries to address storage constraints...

Today’s digital libraries are extreme complex information systems, which run on the Internet [1]. The facilities of digital libraries are increasing daily as the technology advances with a motive to provide the appropriate information to its users. The very purpose of the digital libraries is to provide the required information to its users in a convenient and fashioned manner. Since the digita...

Soonil Bae Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Haowei Hsieh School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 DoHyoung Kim Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Catherine C. Marshall Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA 94043...

This paper reviews the capabilities of libraries for supporting learning. We consider the various roles traditional libraries play and how they are being transformed into digital information repositories. Effective strategies for deploying digital libraries will retain the strengths of traditional libraries while exploiting new possibilities offered by the digital medium.

Digital libraries have become an increasingly valuable tool for knowledge dissemination. Most of the research in the digital library domain has addressed indexing and recovering digital resources. However, more work is still needed to find effective ways to support users when they actually use (read) digital libraries’ documents and to enhance reading experience by sharing digital annotations. ...