2.3 Electronic Books and Texts: Library Issues

Burk, Roberta. "Don't Be Afraid of E-Books." Library Journal, 15 April 2000, 42-45.

Crawford, Walt. "Nine Models, One Name: Untangling the E-Book Muddle." American Libraries 31 (September 2000): 56-59.

Dewey, Barbara I., and Carol Ann Hughes. "Sharing Minds: Creating the Iowa Scholarly Digital Resources Center." Information Technology and Libraries 18 (June 1999): 84-92.

Ellis, Steven. "Toward the Humanities Digital Library: Building the Local Organization." College & Research Libraries 57 (November 1996): 525-534.

Engle, Michael. "The Social Position of Electronic Text Centers." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 15-20, 42.

Gaunt, Marianne. "CETH, Electronic Text Centers, and the Humanities Community." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 36-42.

________. "Literary Text in an Electronic Age: Implications for Library Services." In Advances in Librarianship, vol. 19, ed. Irene Godden, 191-215. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.

________. "Machine-Readable Literary Texts: Collection Development Issues." Collection Management 13, nos. 1/2 (1990): 87-96.

Gibbs, Nancy J. "E-Books: Report on an Ongoing Experiment." Against the Grain 11 (December 1999-January 2000): 23-25.

Goldenberg-Hart, Diane Y. "Library Technology Centers and Community Building: Yale University Library Electronic Text Center." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 21-26.

Pitti, Daniel V. "Encoded Archival Description: An Introduction and Overview." D-Lib Magazine 5 (November 1999). [HTML file]

Powell, Christina Kelleher, and Nigel Kerr. "SGML Creation and Delivery: The Humanities Text Initiative." D-LIB Magazine (July/August 1997). [HTML file]

Price-Wilkin, John. "A Gateway Between the World-Wide Web and PAT: Exploiting SGML Through the Web." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 7 (1994): 5-27. [ASCII file]

________. "Text Files in Libraries: Present Foundations and Future Directions." Library Hi Tech 9, no. 3 (1991): 7-44.

________. "Text Files in RLG Academic Libraries: A Survey of Support and Activities." The Journal of Academic Librarianship 17 (March 1991): 19-25.

________. "Using the World-Wide Web to Deliver Complex Electronic Documents: Implications for Libraries." The Public-Access Computer Systems Review 5, no. 3 (1994): 5-21. [ASCII file]

Seaman, David. "The Electronic Text Center: A Humanities Computing Initiative at the University of Virginia." The Electronic Library 11 (June 1993): 195-199.

________. "'A Library and Apparatus of Every Kind': The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia." Information Technology and Libraries 13 (March 1994): 15-19.

________. "The User Community as Responsibility and Resource: Building a Sustainable Digital Library." D-Lib Magazine (July/August 1997). [HTML file]

Shreeves, Edward. "Between the Visionaries and the Luddites: Collection Development and Electronic Resources in the Humanities." Library Trends 40 (Spring 1992): 579-595.

Smith, Natalia, and Helen R. Tibbo. "Libraries and the Creation of Electronic Texts for the Humanities." College & Research Libraries 57 (November 1996): 535-553.

Spornick, Charles D. "Emory Electronic Text Projects: The Role of the Full-Text Center in Building Partnerships." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 57-62.

Sutton, Brett, ed. Literary Texts in an Electronic Age: Scholarly Implications and Library Services: Papers Presented at the 1994 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing. Urbana-Champaign, IL: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 1994.

Warner, Beth Forrest, and David Barber. "Building the Digital Library: The University of Michigan's UMLibText Project." Information Technology and Libraries 13 (March 1994): 20-24.

Willett, Perry. "Building Support for a Humanities Electronic Text Center: The Experience at Indiana University." Library Hi Tech 16, nos. 3-4 (1998): 51-56.

See also: 6.1 Library Issues: Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata; and 6.4 Library Issues: Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation.

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Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. Houston: University of Houston Libraries, 1996-2000. <URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html>.