Digital Libraries
-The first federal investment in digital library research came in 1994 called Digital Libraries Initiative DLI-1
-Two types of projects awarded under DLI-2, the National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Digital Library (NSDL) programs.
-Big differences between digital collections and providing digital services.
Dewey Meets Turing
-The article talks about digital libraries initiative, a 1994 project by the National Science Foundation, which was complicated by the emergence of the web.
-The word digital library came from combining the words librarians, computer scientist, and publisher.
-Under computer scientist expectations it talks about, “DL Initiative is to provide exciting new work that informed by the centuries-old discipline and values of librarianship”.
Institutional Repositories
-The article defines institutional Repositories as, “a set of services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members.”
-Institutional Repositories are building their community acceptance, support and participation from institutions.
-The article reviews the three cautions and concerns of institutional repositories.
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Hey Nelida, can you believe that the federal agencies gave a total of $68 million dollars to fund the Digital Library Initiatives! i thought that was an interesting tid-bit.
I think it's kind of like the toss-up between VHS and beta. They didn't know which one would take off.
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