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Digital

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Digital

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A Digital

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Digital Libraries Homepage

COURSE DESCRIPTION


Course Topic: Digital Libraries: History, Development, and Future.
   
Textbooks:
Lesk, Michael. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufman, 1997.
   
Fox, Edward A. and Gary Marchionini, eds. Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 1996.
   
Scope: This study was concerned with exploring the issues that must be dealt with in digitizing library collections, and examined current efforts to build digital libraries, technology and techniques used to digitize collections, access means and systems, and future directions for digital libraries. In the course of the study, I surveyed Web sites and periodical literature for relevant materials and documented the sources at this site.
   
A Fanciful
Wrap-up
How could we have helped Citizen Kane's Jerry Thompson find out about Rosebud. Taking some tips from library digitization, let's find out.
   
About this site: This Web site has been developed as a support tool for an Independent Study undertaken under the direction of Dr. Kathleen Burnett, Florida State University School of Information Studies.

Comments & Suggestions
to Jim Alderman.

Updated 10 December 1998.