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Every year, leading librarians, scholars, and administrators from the United States are invited to give papers on important library-related topics at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology's Roundtable. From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic.
In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States. Insight into the policy, legal, and technical frameworks of digital libraries is given, while honest views of problems encountered in trying to integrate digital and traditional libraries are given. Finally, some of the essays explore how users are affected by digital library services.
List of contents
Preface
Foreword by Kakugyo S. Chiku
Part I: Perspectives on the Library of the Twenty-First CenturyScholarship, Information, and Libraries in the Electronic Age by Stanley Chodorow
The Impact of Information Technologies on the Role of the Research Libraries in Teaching and Learning in the United States by Elaine Sloan
The Life of the Mind in a World Transformed by Networks and Digital Libraries by Paul Evan Peters
What's Happening to the Book? by Richard A. Lanham
The Impact of Digital Technology on Libraries: A Chaotic Revolution by Jerry D. Campbell
The Future Value of Digital Information and Digital Libraries by Michael Lesk
Part II: Meeting the Challenges of the Digital LibraryThe Library as Provider of Digital Resources for Teaching and Scholarship by Ann J. Wolpert
Can We Afford Digital Information? Libraries? An Early Assessment of Economic Prospects for Digital Publications by Ann S. Okerson
Intellectual Property for an Information Society by Peter Lyman
The Uses of Digital Libraries: Some Technological, Political, and Economic Considerations by Donald J. Waters
Digital Preservation: An Update by Deanna B. Marcum
Impact of Digital Libraries on Library Staffing and Education by Rachael K. Anderson
Government Records in a Digital World by Peter B. Hirtle
A View on the Ecology of Information by Brian L. Hawkins
Part III: The Digital Library in the Service of Research and Education: Some ExperiencesThe Library of Congress's National Digital Library: Reaching Out to Schools and Libraries through the Internet by Laura Campbell
Toward Libraries' Digital Future: The Canadian Digital Library Experience by Leigh Swain and Susan Haigh
The Future of Libraries and Library Schools by Daniel E. Atkins
Redefining the University through Educational and Information Technologies: North Carolina State University, Its Libraries, and Distance Education by Susan K. Nutter
Re-engineering the Undergraduate Curriculum by Jack M. Wilson
The Internet Public Library: Development and Future by Joseph W. Janes
Public Libraries in the United States: Service to Business and Industry by Beverly P. Lynch
Prognosis on Becoming Digital: Digital Information, Global Networks, and Business Education by William D. Walker
Index
About the author
DEANNA B. MARCUM is Director of Public Service and Collection Management at the Library of Congress and president of The Council on Library Resources. An authority on library history, she was formerly the Dean of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University of America.
Summary
From 1995 to 1999, some aspect of digital library development was the theme of the symposium, and the essays in this collection are all devoted to that topic. In these essays, some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners discuss how digital libraries have been conceived and implemented in the United States.
