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Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-do-it Manual (A How-to-Do-It Manual) (A How-to-Do-It Manual) (A How-to-Do-It Manual)

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Authors: Terry Reese, Kyle Banerjee
Publisher: Neal Schuman Publishers
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 854969

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 277
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.5 x 0.6

ISBN: 1555706177
Dewey Decimal Number: 025.00285
EAN: 9781555706173
ASIN: 1555706177

Publication Date: December 27, 2007
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Librarians embarking on the challenge of building a digital collection have their work cut out for them and here is the book to help launch and complete the mission! Easy to understand, this guide demonstrates how resources are created, distributed, and accessed and how librarians can keep up with the latest technologies for successfully completing these tasks. Chapters walk you step-by-step through all of the stages. This how-to offers detailed advice for: planning for and assessing the purpose of your digital repository; acquiring, processing, classifying, and describing digital content; storing documents; choosing a platform; specific technologies useful repositories (XML, SOAP, and more); sharing data; federated searching of repositories; understanding issues with allowing/restricting access to information; analyzing repository use, and migrating to other platforms and accommodating new types of data. Librarians looking for a timely, comprehensive guide to creating a digital collection will find this book an invaluable resource.

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An integral part of the telecommunication revolution March 4, 2008
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School and community libraries are now an integral part of the telecommunication revolution that is exemplified by the now ubiquitous presence of internet informational resources and online databases. "Building Digital Libraries: A How-To-Do-It Manual For Libraries" is co-authored by Terry Reese (Digital Production Unit Head for Oregon State University Libraries) and Kyle Banerjee (Digital Services Program Manager for the Orbis Cascade Alliance in Eugene Oregon and a key architect of Oregon State's electronic documents repository) who draw upon their many years of experience and expertise to provide librarians and staff members with a detailed, organized, non-technical instruction guide through every step of the process for creating, organizing, and maintaining local repositories of information, records, and other forms of data. Covering the fundamental basics as well as the logistics of designing, constructing, and maintaining digital products using in-house content, all of the relevant tools, approaches, and third-party resource technologies are addressed, along with the role of metadata and standards, sharing data, systems operability, digital rights management, and more. A complete single volume manual, "Building Digital Libraries" is a welcome and strongly recommended reference for inclusion into Library Science curriculums and library staff on-site training programs.