Digital libraries (DL) have become one of the most typical ways of accessing any kind of digitalized information. Due to this key role, users welcome any improvements on the services they receive from digital libraries. One trend used to improve digital services is through personalization. Up to now, the most common approach for personalization in digital libraries has been user-driven. Neverth...

Ever since computer networks have become popular libraries tend to join into federations. Each federated digital library, apart from delivering discovery and navigation features within their own database allows users to search among other digital library systems. However the variety of users introduces various types of libraries and eventually types of federations of libraries. We present the c...

Digital libraries build on a long history of interdisciplinary research combing the fields of libraries and digital technologies. Ironically, many digital libraries today are still narrowly focused on remote access using traditional desktop environments, and largely unconnected with physical libraries. The Interaction Group Laboratory in the School of Information at The University of Texas at A...

This study examined the corporate social responsibility intervention in the development of digital libraries in the universities of developing countries. It specifically investigated the challenges facing the MTN Foundation Digital Libraries in the universities in Nigeria and strategies that will engender their effective operation. The research design used for this study was descriptive survey ...

Federated digital libraries focus on the development of common services over multiple, heterogeneous digital repositories. To offer advanced services for federated digital libraries, there is a need to provide an abstract representation of digital objects stored within a specific repository, maintaining their semantics. In this paper a middleware for the development of federated digital librari...

Prior to digital reference the peculiarity about reference service in German libraries in general has to be explained. Only then can the delays of German libraries concerning Digital Reference in comparison with libraries in the US, Great Britain or Scandinavia be understood. The different kinds of digital reference that have emerged so far will be described briefly then. Afterwards the actual ...