Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries Design, Development, and Impact

As digital libraries expand in their proliferation, and as researchers, students, and consumers increasingly depend on them for their information needs, developers are keen to learn more about the design, use, and usability of these systems. The Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact is the single academic reference work to provide comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this in-depth collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries.

Yin-Leng Theng is an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She completed her PhD in 1997 on addressing the lost in hyperspace problem in hypertext, and proposed a framework to understand design and usability issues. She then joined Middlesex University (London) as a lecturer from 1998 to 2001. Presently, she teaches on the Information Studies Masters Programme: Digital Libraries and Human-Computer Interaction. Her research interests in Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries had led to the award of two research grants from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council in the United Kingdom during her four years of teaching at Middlesex University (London). Recently, she received a three-year university research grant to design and develop a suite of usability engineering tools for digital libraries on mobile environments and the Web.

Schubert Foo is Professor and Vice-Dean of the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He was the former Head of the Division of Information Studies that offers two Master of Science programmes in Information Studies and Knowledge Management. Dr. Foo holds a PhD in Materials Engineering, MBA and a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde (UK). He is Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, and Fellow of the British Computer Society (UK). He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Information Science, Journal of Information & Knowledge Management, and International Yearbook of Library and Information Management. He has published more than 110 international journal and conference papers and book chapters in the areas of multimedia technology, Internet technology, multilingual information retrieval, digital libraries and knowledge management.

Dion Goh has a PhD in computer science and is an associate professor at the Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. He is also Director of the school s Master of Science in Information Systems program. His research areas are in the areas of information retrieval, digital libraries, text mining, use of information technology in education and user interfaces.

Jin-Cheon Na is an assistant professor in the Division of Information Studies in the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are digital library, text mining, information retrieval, hypermedia system, and human-computer interaction.