Digital library use and D Guide - Resources and Review

Investigates the need for charging mechanisms, in particular for micropayments, charging for small amounts, and discusses the requirements for successful charging mechanisms.
 
Collection of Welsh language resources catering for learners of all abilities. Information includes a bibliography, software packages, magazines, grammar guides, and spelling and vocabulary checkers.
 
Paper examining the selection of information within a digital library environment at three levels: selecting which library (repository) to look in, selecting which document(s) within a library to look at, and selecting fragments of data (text, numeric data, images) from within a document. Similarities and differences between these three levels are discussed.
 
Article which reviews the development of search tools that deliver multidisciplinary results, but also preserve the metadata and finding aids of discrete databases, with specific reference to four systems: KnowledgeCite Library, Database Advisor, Pharos, and Northern Light.
 
Report surveying over a decade the use of a variety of print and online resources by reference librarians at academic research libraries in the United States and Canada.
 
Article describing Korean document retrieval techniques and assessing a novel approach for retrieving SGML / HyTime documents from large document databases.
 
This report presents the result of a survey concerning seven priced online services that are available to the academic community as a result of JISC initiatives. Compiled on behalf of the Database Resources Research Group (DRRG).
 
Report of a collaborative project (1991
1995) designed to prepare participants for the transition phase towards digital libraries. Describes technical aspects of the project, user behaviour encountered, conclusions drawn by participants at the end of the project, and recommendations of value to others contemplating a digital library project.
 
Collection of texts relevant to the subject of libraries facing the challenge of networked information. Contributions in English, German and Nordic languages.
 
Article documenting the benefits and drawbacks of digital libraries. Electronic publications and their impact on libraries are discussed, along with the role of librarians in an electronic environment is evaluated.
 
The Columbia Online Books Evaluation Project is designed to learn about the scholarly community's enthusiasm for the online format. The paper focuses on user response and reports on the methodology for measuring adoption of online books by the Columbia community, current findings on relevant environmental factors, including access to online resources, current findings on use of online books and other online resources and current findings on attitudes toward online books.
 
Report from a project investigating the impact of digital libraries and the Internet on special libraries. The project also addressed the extent to which practitioners working in local government or voluntary social service agencies are being prevented from accessing digital library developments through lack of access to the UK Higher Education network, the digital resources academic libraries provide themselves and various collaborative schemes which offer access to digital resources across the academic network as a whole.
 
Article outlining a proposed model for the development of digital library research. Covers a number of themes such as accessibility, user support, requirements and behaviour, structural issues, navigation and search tools, metadata, information retrieval, interface design, functionality, security, and sustainability.
 
A National Science Foundation and British Library funded study into the nature, manifestations, and behaviour of successive searching by users in digital environments, and an attempt to derive criteria for use in the design of information retrieval interfaces and systems supporting successive searching behaviour.
 
Solutions suggested to the problem that although many members of the academic community acknowledge electronic information sources have an impact on their work, many of these services remain under used. Part of a series of guides written by the IMPEL2 Project based on findings from case studies conducted in the library and information services of 24 UK universities and colleges during 1996
97.
 
Full text magazine with stories, commentary, briefings and a collection of resources for digital library research.
 
A print and Web magazine of Internet issues for librarians and information specialists. Aims to describe and evaluate sources and services on the Internet relevant to the LIS profession, and report on progress and developments within the Electronic Libraries Programme. Back issues available online from 1996.
 
The main focus of standardisation in the library arena has moved from that of supporting efficiency to allowing library users to access external resources and facilitating remote access to library resources. The potential of full interoperability in the field is examined along with its likely impact. Some of the gaps in current standards are examined, with a focus on information retrieval.
 
Article introducing a rapid access method to video data in digital libraries via a video browsing interface prototype with a slide show style presentation of video frames with adjustable display rates. The success of the application is assessed, and full details of experimental methodology and findings are provided.
 
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