Library and Information Science: Digital Libraries and Related Links

  • Publications
  • Bibliography
  • Other Bibliographies
  • Current Awareness Resources
  • Courses on Digital Libraries
  • Tutorials/Tools
  • Conferences and Events
  • Email Discussion Lists and Forums


    PUBLICATIONS

    Ariadne
    http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
    Targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, and also to interested lay people. Its main geographic focus is the UK. Its principal goal is to report on information service developments and information networking issues worldwide, keeping the busy practitioner abreast of current digital library initiatives.

    The ACM Digital Library
    http://portal.acm.org/dl/
    This library contains articles from leading conferences and technical journals in the field of human-computer interaction. Full access to the Guide is available to all ACM Professional, Student, and SIG members as a basic membership benefit.

    D-Lib Magazine
    http://www.dlib.org/
    This electronic magazine contains a wealth of information related to digital libraries, including technical issues, design and user interface issues, and social issues. Access is free.

    International Journal on Digital Libraries
    http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00799/
    Access to the fulltext articles is restricted to subscribers, but table of contents and abstracts are available at no cost. Quarterly journal aimed at advancing the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, and dissemination of digital information via global networking.

    Journal of Digital Information
    http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
    Covers the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments. You can select "digital libraries" from the "themes" pull-down menu at the top.

    Library Journal: Digital Libraries Section
    http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/index.asp?layout=sectionsMain&verticalid=151&industry=Digital+Libraries&industryid=3760

    RLG DigiNews
    http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/
    A bi-monthly publication featuring articles and updates on digitization and digital preservation projects, programs, and developments.

    First Monday
    http://www.firstmonday.dk/
    A peer-reviewed journal on the Internet with many full-text articles about the Internet and the Global Information Infrastructure.

    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
    http://www.asis.org/Publications/JASIS/jasis.html
    Table of contents and abstracts only; ASIST member registration required to view full articles.
    In particular see:
    Special Topic Issue: Digital Libraries: Part 1 (February 2000)
    Special Topic Issue: Digital Libraries: Part 2 (March 2000)

    HCIRN Periodicals
    http://www.hcirn.com/res/period/
    Lists journals, magazines and newsletters of interest to HCI professionals.

    Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
    http://hci-journal.com/editorial/index.html
    Contains tables of content of all issues including abstracts for articles published until 1993, and announcements of planned special issues.

    Technical Communication
    http://www.techcomm-online.org
    Registration required.

    The Journal of Electronic Publishing
    http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/

    Vine
    http://litc.sbu.ac.uk/publications/vine.html
    This library journal is published quarterly. Site includes tables of contents & abstracts of recent issues; full text available to subscribers.

    *Digital Libraries Conference Proceedings

    Digital Libraries '94
    Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/byauthors.html

    Digital Libraries '95
    Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
    http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/csdl/DL95/

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Usability Evaluation of Digital Libraries
    Buttenfield, Barbara. Co-published simultaneously in Science & Technology in Libraries (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol 17, No. 3/4, 1999, pp. 39-59; and: Digital Libraries; Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios (ed: David Stern) The Haworth Press Inc., 1999, pp. 39-59.

    Digital Library Design for Usability: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
    http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/paper/kling.html
    Kling, Rob and Elliott, Margaret. 1994.

    Tools and Techniques in Evaluating Digital Imaging Projects
    http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-3.html#technical1
    Rieger, Robert and Gay, Geri. 1999. RLG DigiNews 3(3).

    Creating Digital Image Resources - NYU Digital Library Group
    http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/digilib/standards.image.html
    A list of works which provide some of the best information on creating and disseminating digital images.


    OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHIES

    6.2 Library Issues: Digital Libraries
    http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/lbdiglib.htm

    Bibliography On-Demand
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/bibondemand.cgi
    Construct your own bibliography from the Current Cites database of bibliographic citations (over 1,000 annotated citations on information technology literature from January 1994 to the present).

    Library Technology Guides: Bibliography
    http://www.librarytechnology.org/BIB-search.pl?
    This bibliographic database offers a rich set of citations and full-text information. Citations are included for books, book chapters, and articles relevant to the discipline. Comprehensive indexing is currently available for the Journal of Library Automation (1968 - 1981), Information Technology and Libraries (1982 - present), Library Systems Newsletter (1981 - present). Selected indexing is available for Library Software Review (1990-1998), D-Lib Magazine, and Computers in Libraries. Some, but not all citations have abstracts and links to full text are provided when available. Includes option to Browse by Subject

    Readings: Concepts of Digital Libraries
    http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/mccarthy/diglib82readings1.html
    Course bibliography from The University of Iowa Digital Libraries Course, Spring 2001.

    Digital Libraries: Bibliography
    http://www.ifla.org/II/diglib.htm#bibliography
    Mostly older information 1990-1998.

    HCI Bibliography
    http://www.hcibib.org/
    A "free-access online bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction." It "includes entries with title, author, date, pages, and publication, with keywords and abstracts when available, and tables of contents of articles in some cases." The HCI Bibliography also contains additional reference information.

    CANIS Laboratory Publications
    http://www.canis.uiuc.edu/publications/index.html
    Part of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
    Includes papers, talks and technical reports.


    CURRENT AWARENESS RESOURCES

    The Library Web Manager's Reference Center (mother link of resources)
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter/
    Includes many links. It includes links to training materials, Web Page Authoring & Site Management sites, Current Awareness Resources, "Organizations for Internet librarians" and much more.

    Current Awareness Resources - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Info/current.html
    Lists digital library electronic discussions, periodicals, and organizations.

    Current Cites
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/
    A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for inclusion in the monthly publication. Also distributed via email by subscribing to the mailing list: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/mailinglist.html

    Ticer's Digital Library Literature Service
    http://dbiref.kub.nl:2080/pvs/pvs.cgi?ticer
    Meant for librarians and others interested in digital libraries. The service informs you of new (electronic) journal articles, books and other publications in the field of digital libraries. The literature lists are compiled by the Tilburg University library.

    *Table of Contents Services

    BUBL Table of Contents Service
    http://www.bubl.ac.uk/journals/
    This service provides the contents, abstracts or full text for over 200 current journals and newsletters (library and information science, social and medical services, computing, business, agriculture and food science), and includes Boolean searching.

    Current Awareness Abstracts
    http://www.aslib.co.uk/caa/index.html
    Service for information management professionals covering the core 300 English language library, information science and information management periodicals. Password required to view the full-text of most abstracts.



    COURSES ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES

    Education for Digital Libraries
    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may99/05spink.html
    D-Lib Magazine, May 1999.
    This article looks at the state of education in digital libraries. See "Table 1." of the article for "Institutions Offering Courses in Digital Libraries".

    615: Special Topics: Digital Libraries - University of Michigan School of Information
    http://intel.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/si/courses/description.cfm?passCID=299
    Other relevant courses can be found in the School of Information Course Catalogue.

    International Summer School on the Digital Library 2002 - TICER, founded by Tilburg University
    http://www.ticer.nl/summer02/
    Organizes the International Summer School on the Digital Library, which is aimed at middle and higher management. "The summer school focuses on changes in the information chain, strategic management, personnel policy, starting a digital library, and producers of digital information".
    For past courses see: Other Seminars and Courses Organized by Ticer

    ASIST Continuing Education
    http://www.asis.org/CE/ce.html
    Most of ASIST' courses are held in conjunction with ASIST conferences. Courses are designed to help information professionals (regardless of their work setting) stay on top of the latest techniques and technologies for information management.


    TUTORIALS/TOOLS

    The Library Web Manager's Reference Center
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/RefCenter/
    Includes many links. It includes links to training materials, Web Page Authoring & Site Management sites, Current Awareness Resources, "Organizations for Internet librarians" and much more.

    Tools for Building the Digital Library
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Tools/
    Links to information about digital cameras, browsers, Java, SQL, etc.

    Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database
    http://www.getty.edu/research/institute/standards/introimages/index.html
    A book by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant (Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Art History Information Program, 1995).
    Introduces digital imaging technology and vocabulary as they relate to the development of image databases, and outlines the areas in which institutional strategies regarding the use of imaging technologies must be developed.

    Moving Theory Into Practic: Digital Imaging Tutorial
    http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html

    Creating Digital Image Resources
    http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/collections/digilib/standards.image.html
    A list of works which provide some of the best information on creating and disseminating digital images.


    CONFERENCES & EVENTS

    There are a large number of conferences and workshops devoted to the topic of digital libraries. Since many of them are single events sponsored by professional organizations such as ASIS and LITA, a good way to keep track of them is to subscribe to mailing lists such as DIGLIB and to check their web sites.

    Digital Library Research: Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops
    (The Motherlist from D-Lib Magazine)
    http://www.dlib.org/groups.html
    Lists upcoming digital library meetings, workshops, and conferences. Also listed are past events with links to conference programs, proceedings, and other documents going as far back as 1996.

    Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
    http://www.jcdl.org/
    This site is an archive of Digital Library conferences and resources.

    Digital Library Federation Forum
    http://www.diglib.org/forums.htm
    The Forum convenes twice a year and includes digital library practitioners from member institutions. DLF is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services.

    ASIS&T Conferences
    http://www.asis.org/Conferences/index.html

    ASIST Continuing Education
    http://www.asis.org/CE/ce.html
    Most of ASIST' courses are held in conjunction with ASIST conferences. Courses are designed to help information professionals (regardless of their work setting) stay on top of the latest techniques and technologies for information management.

    Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
    http://www.acm.org/
    Lists conferences and events. Members can have access to the ACM Digital Library for access to ACM publications and conference proceedings.
    36 special interest groups (SIGS): http://store.acm.org/acmstore/sigs.icl
    SIGS range from Information Retrieval to Human Computer Interaction.

    IEEE Computer Society
    http://www.computer.org/
    Lists conferences, publications and includes a digital library of publications.

    Information Technology Division (ITE) of the Special Libraries Association (SLA)
    http://www.sla.org/division/dite/index.html
     SLA conference & events listings: http://www.sla.org/content/Events/index.cfm

    HCIRN: Events
    http://www.hcirn.com/res/event/index.html
    Lists upcoming events (conferences, symposia, workshops) relevant for human-computer interaction. It also provides references for past events.

    Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation
    http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/
    One-week workshop on use of digital technology for librarians, archivists, and other information professionals responsible for collecting, preserving, and making accessible documentary materials. Includes case studies and hands-on scanning labs.


    EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS & FORUMS

    Many electronic discussion lists are relevant to digital libraries. Below are just a few relevant email lists.

    Web4Lib Electronic Discussion
    http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/
    For the discussion of issues relating to the creation and management of library-based World-Wide Web servers and clients. Particularly appropriate issues for discussion include, but are not limited to:

  • Web site design
  • cataloging and metadata issues regarding Web information
  • creating and maintaining secure public Web stations
  • training staff or users to use the Web

    • DIGLIB
    http://www.ifla.org/II/lists/diglib.htm
    A mailing list is for librarians, information scientists, and other information professionals to share information about the many issues and technologies pertaining to the creation of digital libraries.
    The DIGLIB archive is browseable from August 1995 to the present and is updated automatically:
    http://infoserv.nlc-bnc.ca/cgi-bin/ifla-lwgate.pl/DIGLIB/archives/

    DLI2
    Digital Libraries Initiative Phase 2
    http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/lists/
    A mailing list archival site for the digital libraries research community. Includes links to related lists not archived on the DLI2 site.

    LITA-L
    Library and Information Technology Association Discussion List
    http://www.lita.org/lists.htm
    An unmediated on-line discussion group for those interested in all aspects of information technology, particularly as they apply to libraries and information services.

    SIG-DL
    Special Interest Group: Digital libraries - ASSIST
    http://www.asis.org/SIG/sigdl/ediscussion.html
    The list is for discussing research, development and use of digital libraries in corporate, academic and public contexts. Also see other ASIS mailing lists.

    InfoDesign Mailing List
    http://www.bogieland.com/infodesign/mailinglists.html
    Moderated mailing list which serves as a forum for discussions about information design issues. Information design is defined as "the art and the science of presenting information so that it is understandable and easy to use: effective, efficient and attractive."

    Usability SIG Email Discussion List
    http://www.stcsig.org/usability/activities/listfaq.html
    The purpose of the stcusesig_l mailing list is to provide a forum for technical communicators who:

    • Have an interest in usability
    • Are moving into the usability field from another job
    • Want to learn some tips and tricks
    • Want advice from people working in the field

    Usablemobile.com and Usableitv.com Discussion Forums
    http://www.usability.serco.com/usable/usable.htm
    Global discussion forums for usability issues in the mobile Internet and Interactive TV. Usablemobile.com proposes to take lessons learned from current generations of 'mobile internet', to inform the design of future mobile devices as technology evolves.

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