Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems

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 institutions.

Familiarizes readers with general and library specific technologies required to provide digital library servicesHelps readers better understand trade offs between in-house and vendor solutionsProvides library decision makers with technology staffing guidance