Publisher's Synopsis
Digital Library: Digitization Types of Digital Libraries Collaborative Digitization Projects Advantages Problems Academic Repositories Digital Archives Searching Framework The Future Digital Preservation Strategies Data Format Management Digital Curation Digital Obsolescence National Digital Information Infrastructure Recommendations of National Academy of Sciences Background of Digital Efforts Congressional Legislation Organizations Participating National Significance Caring for America's Library Institutional Growing Pains Paper and Environmental Challenges GPO Branch Office at the Library, 1900-40 Keeper of the Collections, 1940-63 Office of Collection Maintenance and Preservation Centralization and Modernization of Preservation Activities Preservation Office, 1967-89 Preservation Directorate, 1989-Present State-of-the-Art Storage And Special Media Conservation Activities and Facilities Mission of the Preservation Directorate Preservation Directorate: Organizational Chart Services of the Conservation Division Saving the Written Word: Mass Deacidification at the Library of Congress Services of the Preservation Reformatting Division Services of the Preservation Research and Testing Division - Digital Preservation for Digital Libraries: The Challenges of Digital Preservation University of Central Lancashire Performance Measurement The Study Team Related Work - Participation Patterns in Digital Repositories: Repositories by the Numbers Evaluating Institutional Repository Deployment Conclusions - Open Architecture for the Confederated Digital Library: Introduction and Background Interoperability among Federated Libraries The Social Functions of Digital Libraries - A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries: What is a Digital Library? Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry How do Physicists Use an E-Print Archive? Implementing Digital Sanborn Maps for Ohio Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) Transfer from Analog to Digital : Selecting a System - Metadata for Digital Libraries: Introduction Languages for Dublin Core - Archiving, Preservation and Tomorrow's Digital Heritage: Introduction Approaches to Assist in Preserving Access Dealing with Hardware and Software Dependencies -
