Sunday, March 25, 2012

Week 11 Reading Notes

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work

This article focuses on the current "digital libraries".  Lynch addresses the concerns about the differences between providing assess to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services.

Dewey Meets Turing: libraries, computers scientists and digital libraries initiative

I think it is interesting to look at how computer scientists have broadened opportunities for library science. It is unfortunate that the DLI money did not go into collection building as some librarians had thought it would. I think as computer scientists and librarians merge, more communication and considerations needs to take place to ensure libraries can provide scholarly support.

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age

Very interesting  way to explain networked information revolution. Institutional repositories have made a huge impact.

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