Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects - Softcover

Karen Calhoun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555709850 ISBN 13: 9781555709853

Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2014

Synopsis

This authoritative and in-depth treatment of the digital library environment focuses on the functional and strategic, providing an unsurpassed overview of what's happening now and what will happen in the future. Both thought-provoking and practical, this book offers

• Calhoun's original applied research in serving digital libraries
• Reviews and analyses of key readings and existing literature
• Results of recent interviews with top educators, researchers and implementers in the digital library arena

About this title

About the Author

Karen Calhoun is an internationally respected librarian and change leader. Her professional experience is wide-ranging, from providing strategic leadership for university libraries at Cornell and in Pittsburgh, to writing and speaking internationally about innovation and change, to charting a future for WorldCat, the world s largest online database for discovering library resources. While her record of publication spans many topics related to the future of libraries, she is perhaps best known for "The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools," a Library of Congress-commissioned report offering a blueprint for digital-age discovery of library collections.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555709850
• ISBN 13: 9781555709853
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352