Digital Libraries Integrating Content and Systems |
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| Author:
| Dahl, Mark V.
Banerjee, Kyle
Spalti, Michael |
| Series title: | Chandos Information Professional Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78063-095-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2006 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science & Technology Books
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $70.00USD $84.00 |
Book Description:
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Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual...
More DescriptionLow cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual institutions.
- Familiarizes readers with general and library specific technologies required to provide digital library services
- Helps readers better understand trade offs between in-house and vendor solutions
- Provides library decision makers with technology staffing guidance