Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives

by Tariq Ashraf, Jaideep Sharma, Puja Anand Gulati

Overview

The increasing prevalence of digital information systems and technologies compels libraries across the globe to update systems and provide users with a digital experience outside the confines of the structural library, providing useful benefits to the user while creating new areas of concern such as digital information preservation. Developing Sustainable Digital Libraries: Socio-Technical Perspectives presents a compilation of articles discussing the benefits and challenges of digital information and library digitization. Scholars from around the globe investigate web application development, techniques for digital conversion, composition of digital libraries, digital environments, and much more. This reference work proves valuable to the study and enhancement of digital information systems and technologies, and in assisting practitioners in the implementation and building of such systems and applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781615207671
Publisher:	IGI Global
Publication date:	03/31/2010
Series:	Premier Reference Source
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.20(h) x 1.20(d)