Unit 10: Digital Library, Institutional Repositories (11/15)

 Readings Notes:

    Mischo, W. (July/August 2005). Digital Libraries: challenges and influential work. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html

This was an interesting article to me. I had never heard of DLl-1 and DLl-2 before. The article gave a background for some of the early digital library projects. It went on and talked about the funding and how the internet was relatively new at the time and was instrumental in moving libraries forward into the technological age.

 Paepcke, A. et al. (July/August 2005). Dewey meets Turing: librarians, computer scientists and the digital libraries initiative. D-Lib Magazine. 11(7/8). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html

This article looked at the relationship between computer scientists and librarians. The ‘rift’ between the two was interesting and can still be relevant today. The bottom line is that the two sciences are integrated to bring clear, concise and relevant information to the user.

Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/br/br226/br226ir.shtml

This article discusses many of the issues we have touched on in all of our classes. The amount of information produced from institution is exponential and to organize and store it in a way that is easily retrievable is a monumental task.  Institutions must have or develop repositories that are adequate.

Comments:

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