Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice

Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice is a book that integrates both research and practice concerning digital library development, use, preservation, and evaluation. The combination of current research and practical guidelines is a unique strength of this book. The authors bring in-depth expertise on different digital library issues and synthesize theoretical and practical perspectives relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students.

The book presents a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and tools for digital library development, including discussions of the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries. Readers will find current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components, including collection, digitization, metadata, interface design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation of digital libraries.

Offers an overview of digital libraries and the conceptual and practical understanding of digital librariesPresents the lifecycle of digital library design, use, preservation and evaluation, including collection development, digitization of static and multimedia resources, metadata, digital library development and interface design, digital information searching, digital preservation, and digital library evaluationSynthesizes current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital librariesIntroduces new developments in the area of digital libraries, such as large-scale digital libraries, social media applications in digital libraries, multilingual digital libraries, digital curation, linked data, rapid capture, guidelines for the digitization of multimedia resourcesHighlights the impact, challenges, suggestions for overcoming these challenges, and trends of present and future development of digital libraries Offers a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter

1. Introduction to Digital Libraries 2. Digital Library Collection Development 3. Digitization of Text and Still Images 4. Digitization of Audio and Moving Image Collections 5. Metadata 6. Digital Library Management Systems 7. Interface Design and Evaluation 8. User Needs and Search Behaviors 9. Digital Preservation 10. Evaluation of Digital Libraries 11. New Developments and Challenges

Appendix A. Digitization Guides, Standards, and Best Practices B. Examples of Metadata Schemas Reviewed in Chapter 5