6.2 Library Issues: Digital Libraries

6.2.1 Alexandria Project, University of California, Santa Barbara
6.2.2 Digital Library Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6.2.3 General
6.2.4 Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University
6.2.5 Mercury Project, Carnegie Mellon University
6.2.6 National Digital Library, Library of Congress
6.2.7 Other Systems
6.2.8 Stanford Digital Library Project
6.2.9 UC Berkeley Digital Library Project
6.2.10 University of Michigan Digital Library Project

6.2.1 Alexandria Project, University of California, Santa Barbara

Frew, James, Michael Freeston, Randall B. Kemp, Jason Simpson, Terence Smith, Alex Wells, and Qi Zheng. "The Alexandria Digital Library Testbed." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1996). [HTML file]

Hill, Linda L., James Frew, and Qi Zheng. "Geographic Names: The Implementation of a Gazetteer in a Georeferenced Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (January 1999). [HTML file]

Larsgaard, Mary Lynette, and Larry Carver. "Accessing Spatial Data Online: Project Alexandria." Information Technology and Libraries 14 (June 1995): 93-97.

Smith, Terence R. "A Brief Update on the Alexandria Digital Library Project: Constructing a Digital Library for Geographically-Referenced Materials." D-Lib Magazine (March 1996). [HTML file]

________. "A Digital Library for Geographically Referenced Materials." Computer 29 (May 1996): 54-60.

Smith, Terence R., and James Frew. "Alexandria Digital Library." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 61-62.

6.2.2 Digital Library Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Bishop, Ann Peterson. "Measuring Access, Use, and Success in Digital Libraries." The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4, no. 2 (1998). [HTML file]

Schatz, Bruce. "Building the Interspace: The Illinois Digital Library Project." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 62-63.

Schatz, Bruce, William Mischo, Timothy Cole, Ann Bishop, Susan Harum, Eric Johnson, Laura Neumann, Hsinchun Chen, and Dorbin Ng. "Federated Search of Scientific Literature." Computer 32 (February 1999): 51-59.

Schatz, Bruce, William H. Mischo, Timothy W. Cole, Joseph B. Hardin, Ann P. Bishop, and Hsinchun Chen. "Federating Diverse Collections of Scientific Literature." Computer 29 (May 1996): 28-36.

6.2.3 General

Allen, Robert B., and Edie Rasmussen, eds. Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries: ACM Digital Libraries '97, Philadelphia, PA, July 23-26, 1997. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery, 1997.

Arms, William Y. "Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (July 1995). [HTML file]

Arms, William Y., Christophe Blanchi, Edward A. Overly. "An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries." D-Lib Magazine (February 1997). [HTML file]

Atkinson, Ross. "Library Functions, Scholarly Communication, and the Foundation of the Digital Library: Laying Claim to the Control Zone." The Library Quarterly 66 (July 1996): 239-265.

Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Integrated Public-Access Computer Systems: The Heart of the Electronic University." In Advances in Library Automation and Networking, vol. 3, ed. Joe A. Hewitt, 1-33. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1989.

Borgman, Christine L. "Multi-Media, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Lingual Digital Libraries: Or How Do We Exchange Data in 400 Languages?" D-Lib Magazine (June 1997). [HTML file]

Carpenter, Leona, Simon Shaw, and Andrew Prescott, eds. Towards the Digital Library: The British Library's Initiatives for Access Programme. London: The British Library, 1998.

Cole, Timothy W., and Michelle M. Kazmer. "SGML as a Component of the Digital Library." Library Hi Tech 13, no. 4 (1995): 75-90.

Digital Libraries '94: Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 1994. [HTML file]

Digital Libraries '95: Proceeding of the Second Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 1995. [HTML file]

Esler, Sandra L., and Michael L. Nelson. "Evolution of Scientific and Technical Information Distribution." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 49 (January 1998): 82-91.

Graham, Peter S. "Requirements for the Digital Research Library." College & Research Libraries 56 (July 1995): 331-339.

Green, David. "Beyond Word and Image: Networking Moving Images: More Than Just the 'Movies.'" D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1997). [HTML file]

Griffin, Stephen M. "NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective." D-LIB Magazine (July/August 1998). [HTML file]

How We Do User-Centered Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Methodological Forum. Urbana-Champaign, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1995. [HTML file]

IEEE International Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries: ADL '97, May 7-9, 1997, Washington, D.C. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.

Jacobson, Robert L. "Librarians Agree on Coordination of Digital Plans." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 May 1995, A28.

Kahn, Robert, and Robert Wilensky. A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services (Reston, VA: Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 1995). [HTML file]

Kilker, Julian, and Geri Gay. "The Social Construction of a Digital Library: A Case Study Examining Implications for Evaluation." Information Technology and Libraries 17 (June 1998): 60-70.

Klemperer, Katharina, and Stephen Chapman. "Digital Libraries: A Selected Resource Guide." Information Technology and Libraries 16 (September 1997): 126-131. [HTML file]

Lesk, Michael. "Going Digital." Scientific American 276 (March 1997): 58-60.

________. Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1997.

Levy, David M., and Catherine C. Marshall. "Going Digital: A Look at Assumptions Underlying Digital Libraries." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 77-84.

Logoze, Carl, and David Fielding. "Defining Collections in Distributed Digital Libraries." D-Lib Magazine (November 1998). [HTML file]

Lynch, Clifford, and Hector Garcia-Molina. Interoperability, Scaling, and the Digital Libraries Research Agenda: A Report on the May 18-19, 1995 IITA Digital Libraries Workshop. [HTML file]

Marchionini, Gary, and Hermann Maurer. "The Roles of Digital Libraries in Teaching and Learning." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 67-75.

Marcum, Deanna B. "Digital Libraries: For Whom? For What?" The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23 (March 1997): 81-84.

Oppenheim, Charles, and Daniel Smithson. "What Is the Hybrid Library?" Journal of Information Science 25, no. 2 (1999): 97-112.

Paepcke, Andreas, Chen-Chuan K. Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, and Terry Winograd. "Interoperability for Digital Libraries Worldwide." Communications of the ACM 41 (April 1998): 33-43.

Pinfield, Stephen, Jonathan Eaton, Catherine Edwards, Rosemary Russell, Astrid Wissenburg, and Peter Wynne. "Realizing the Hybrid Library." D-Lib Magazine (October 1998). [HTML file]

Pope, Nolan F. "Digital Libraries: Future Potentials and Challenges." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 147-155.

Price-Wilkin, John. "Just-in-Time Conversion, Just-in-Case Collections: Effectively Leveraging Rich Document Formats for the WWW." D-Lib Magazine (May 1997). [HTML file]

Proceedings of International Symposium on Digital Libraries 1995. Tsukuba Science City, Japan: University of Library and Information Science, 1995. [HTML file]

Rusbridge, Chris. "Towards the Hybrid Library." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1998). [HTML file]

Schatz, Bruce R. "Information Retrieval in Digital Libraries: Bringing Search to the Net." Science, 17 January 1997, 327-334.

Trant, Jennifer. "Images on the Internet: Issues and Opportunities." American Council of Learned Societies Newsletter 4 (February 1997). [HTML file]

Wiederhold, Gio. "Digital Libraries, Value, and Productivity." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 85-96.

6.2.4 Informedia, Carnegie Mellon University

Christel, M., T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, M. Sirbu, S. Stevens, and H. Wactlar. "Informedia Digital Video Library." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 57-58.

Wactlar, Howard D., Michael G. Christel, Yihong Gong, and Alexander G. Hauptmann. "Lessons Learned from Building a Terabyte Digital Video Library." Computer 32 (February 1999): 66-73.

Wactlar, Howard D., Takeo Kanade, Michael A. Smith, and Scott M. Stevens. "Intelligent Access to Digital Video: Informedia Project." Computer 29 (May 1996): 46-52.

6.2.5 Mercury Project, Carnegie Mellon University

Arms, William Y., Thomas Dopirak, Parviz Dousti, Joseph Rafail, and Arthur W. Wetzel. "The Design of the Mercury Electronic Library." Educom Review 27 (November/December 1992): 38-41.

Lowry, Charles B., and Barbara G. Richards. "Courting Discovery: Managing Transition to the Virtual Library." Library Hi Tech 12, no. 4 (1994): 7-13.

Richards, Barbara G. "Project Mercury: The Virtual Library Infrastructure at Carnegie Mellon University." In The Evolving Virtual Library: Visions and Case Studies, ed. Laverna M. Saunders, 67-88. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 1996.

Troll, Denise A. "Library Information System II: Progress Report and Technical Plan." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 1, no. 3 (1990): 4-29. [ASCII file]

________. "The Mercury Project: Meeting the Expectations of Electronic Library Patrons." In Advances in Online Public Access Catalogs, vol. 1, ed. Marsha Ra and Regina Rega, 114-135. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing, 1992.

________. "Research on the Distributed Electronic Library." In Advances in Library Automation and Networking, vol. 5, ed. Joe A. Hewitt and Charles W. Bailey, Jr., 203-277. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc., 1994.

6.2.6 National Digital Library, Library of Congress

Arms, Caroline R. "Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress." D-Lib Magazine (April 1996). [HTML file]

________. "Historical Collections for the National Digital Library: Lessons and Challenges at the Library of Congress." D-Lib Magazine (May 1996). [HTML file]

Becker, Herbert S. "Library of Congress Digital Library Effort." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 66.

Lamolinara, Guy. "Metamorphosis of a National Treasure." American Libraries 27 (March 1996): 31-33.

________. "The National Digital Library Program." In The Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 40th ed., ed. Catherine Barr. New Providence, NJ: R. R. Bowker, 1995.

6.2.7 Other Systems

Anderson, Greg, Rebecca Lasher, and Vicky Reich. "The Computer Science Technical Report (CS-TR) Project: A Pioneering Digital Library Project Viewed from a Library Perspective." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 7, no. 2 (1996): 6-26. [HTML file]

Barber, David. "OhioLINK: A Consortial Approach to Digital Library Management." D-Lib Magazine (April 1997). [HTML file]

Coleman, Ross. "Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project, 1840-45." Ariadne, no. 8 (1997). [HTML file]

Davis, James R. "Creating a Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library." D-Lib Magazine (September 1995). [HTML file]

Erway, Ricky L. "Digital Initiatives of the Research Libraries Group." D-Lib Magazine (December 1996). [HTML file]

Fenske, David E., and Jon W. Dunn. "The VARIATIONS Project at Indiana University's Music Library." D-Lib Magazine (June 1996). [HTML file]

Fox, Edward A., John L. Eaton, Gail McMillan, Neill A. Kipp, Paul Mather, Tim McGonigle, William Schweiker, and Brian DeVane. "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations: An International Effort Unlocking University Resources." D-Lib Magazine (September 1997). [HTML file]

Fox, Edward A., John L. Eaton, Gail McMillan, Neill A. Kipp, Laura Weiss, Emilio Arce, and Scott Guyer. "National Library of Theses and Dissertations: A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Unlock University Resources." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1996). [HTML file]

French, James C., Edward A. Fox, Kurt Maly, and Alan L. Selman. "Wide Area Technical Report Service: Technical Reports Online." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 45.

Gladney, Henry M., Fred Mintzer, Fabio Schiattarella, Julian Bescos, and Martin Treu. "Digital Access to Antiquities." Communications of the ACM 41 (April 1998): 49-57.

Hunt, Leta, and Philip J. Ethington. "The Utility of Spatial and Temporal Organization in Digital Library Construction." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 23 (November 1997): 475-483.

Iannella, Renato. "Australian Digital Library Initiatives." D-Lib Magazine (December 1996). [HTML file]

Klavans, Judith L. "New Center at Columbia University for Digital Library Research: Fostering Interdisciplinary Research and Bridging Cultural Clashes." D-Lib Magazine (March 1996). [HTML file]

Kunze, John A., and Brian N. Warling. "Recent Developments in Galen II: Evolution of a Digital Library for the Health Sciences." D-Lib Magazine (March 1996). [HTML file]

Lagoze, Carl, and James R. Davis. "Dienst: An Architecture for Distributed Document Libraries." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 47.

Leiner, Barry M. "The NCSTRL Approach to Open Architecture for the Confederated Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (December 1998). [HTML file]

Lougee, Wendy P. "The University of Michigan Digital Library Program: A Retrospective on Collaboration Within the Academy." Library Hi Tech 16, no. 1 (1998): 51-59.

Lucier, Richard E. "Building a Digital Library for the Health Sciences: Information Space Complementing Information Place." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 83 (July 1995): 346-350.

Maslin, Jon, and Elizabeth Lyon. "Project Patron-Audio and Video On Demand at the University of Surrey." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 24 (November 1998): 464-468.

Mintzer, F. C., L. E. Boyle, A. N. Cazes, B. S. Christian, S. C. Cox, F. P. Giordano, H. M. Gladney, J. C. Lee, M. L. Kelmanson, A. C. Lirani, K. A. Magerlein, A. M. B. Pavani, and F. Schiattarella. "Toward On-line, Worldwide Access to Vatican Library Materials." IBM Journal of Research and Development 40 (March 1996): 139-162.

Moen, William E. "Accessing Distributed Cultural Heritage Information." Communications of the ACM 41 (April 1998): 45-48.

Nelson, Michael L., Gretchen L. Gottlich, David J. Bianco, Sharon S. Paulson, Robert L. Binkley, Yvonne D. Kellogg, Chris J. Beaumont, Robert B. Schmunk, Michael J. Kurtz, Alberto Accomazzi, and Omar Syed. "The NASA Technical Report Server." Internet Research: Electronic Network Applications and Policy 5, no. 2 (1995): 25-36.

Ober, John. "The California Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (March 1999). [HTML file]

Purday, Jonathan. "The British Library's Initiatives for Access Projects." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 65-66.

Rao, Ramana, Jan O. Pedersen, Marti A. Hearst, Jock D. Mackinlay, Stuart K. Card, Larry Masinter, Per-Kristian Halvorsen, and George G. Robertson. "Rich Interaction in the Digital Library." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 29-39.

Rusch-Feja, Diann, and Hans Jurgen Becker. "Global Info: The German Digital Libraries Project." D-Lib Magazine (April 1999). [HTML file]

Schlabach, Martin L., and Susan J. Barnes. "The Mann Library Gateway System." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 1 (1994): 5-19. [ASCII file]

Shaw, Elizabeth J., and Sarr Blumson. "Making of America: Online Searching and Page Presentation at the University of Michigan." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1997). [HTML file]

Simon, Rebecca. "SCAN: Scholarship from California on the Net." The Serials Librarian 28, nos. 1/2 (1996): 123-128.

Starr, Susan S. "Building the Collections of the California Digital Library." Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, no. 17 (Winter 1998). [HTML file]

University of California Digital Library Executive Working Group. The University of California Digital Library: A Framework for Planning and Strategic Initiatives. 1996. [HTML file]

Wanat, Thomas. "Indiana Program Strives to Digitize Music Without Sacrificing the Quality of Sound." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 May 1997, A29.

Witten, Ian H., Rodger J. McNab, Steve Jones, Mark Apperley, David Bainbridge, and Sally Jo Cunningham. "Mastering Complexity in a Distributed Digital Library." Computer 32 (February 1999): 74-79.

Young, Jeffrey R. "Requiring Theses in Digital Form: The First Year at Virginia Tech." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 13 February 1998, A29-A31.

6.2.8 Stanford Digital Library Project

Paepcke, Andreas, Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, Chen-Chuan K. Chang, Steve Cousins, and Hector Garcia-Molina. "Using Distributed Objects to Build the Stanford Digital Library Infobus." Computer 32 (February 1999): 80-87.

Paepcke, Andreas, Steve B. Cousins, Hector Garcia-Molina, Scott W. Hassan, Steven P. Ketchpel, Martin Roscheisen, and Terry Winograd. "Using Distributed Objects for Digital Library Interoperability." Computer 29 (May 1996): 61-68.

The Stanford Digital Libraries Group. "The Stanford Digital Library Project." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 59-60.

6.2.9 UC Berkeley Digital Library Project

Ogle, Virginia, and Robert Wilensky. "Testbed Development for the Berkeley Digital Library Project." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1996). [HTML file]

Van House, Nancy A., Mark H. Butler, Virginia Ogle, and Lisa Schiff. "User-Centered Iterative Design for Digital Libraries: The Cypress Experience." D-Lib Magazine (February 1996). [HTML file]

Wilensky, Robert. "Toward Work-Centered Digital Information Services." Computer 29 (May 1996): 37-44.

________. "UC Berkeley's Digital Library Project." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 60.

6.2.10 University of Michigan Digital Library Project

Atkins, Daniel E., William P. Birmingham, Edmund H. Durfee, Eric J. Glover, Tracy Mullen, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Elliot Soloway, Jose M. Vidal, Raven Wallace, and Michael P. Wellman. "Toward Inquiry-Based Education Through Interacting Software Agents." Computer 29 (May 1996): 69-76.

Crum, Laurie. "University of Michigan Digital Library Project." Communications of the ACM 38 (April 1995): 63-64.

See also: 3.3 Electronic Serials: Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals.

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