The library of congress's national digital library program

1996 ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
James H. Billington
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Library Program

scholarly journals Applying the Digital Curation Lessons Learned from American Memory

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Madden
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Digital Curation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Legacy Data ◽  
The Creation ◽  
American Memory

American Memory, launched in 1995, was the Library of Congress’s debut web presentation and the primary product of the National Digital Library Program. More than 700,000 described digital items in 90 collections were added to American Memory in those first five years, including content from 23 external organizations. These materials were digitized, assembled and presented without tools designed specifically for the work and before the development of approved standards for the creation, presentation, or exchange of digital content. Valuable lessons about all levels of digital curation emerged from this early foray into digital library work, and many of the issues have persisted into current digital library efforts at the Library. This article focuses primarily on lessons learned about the conceptualization, creation, receipt, and preservation actions for digital content. It describes how strategies developed early on to manage the diverse and heterogeneous digital content helped inform later practices and were applied to legacy data in an effort to ensure their sustainability, flexibility and shareability into the future.

scholarly journals Estudos bibliométricos sobre a produção científica da temática Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação em bibliotecas

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Rodrigues ◽  
Angel Freddy Godoy Viera
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
Electronic Library ◽  
Library Program

Para medir a atividade científica, tem-se utilizado os indicadores bibliográficos que se baseiam em análise estatística de dados quantitativos encontrados na produção técnica e científica. O objetivo deste estudo foi delinear um panorama da produção científica da temática Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação em bibliotecas, de modo a identificar: os autores mais produtivos (Lei de Lotka); a evolução histórica do número de publicações e os periódicos que mais publicaram sobre a temática (Lei de Bradford); e as principais abordagens que cobrem o tema (Lei de Zipf). A metodologia seguiu quatro etapas: escolha da Web of Science como base de dados de consulta; configuração dos parâmetros das estratégias de busca e do período de cobertura; depuração dos resultados; e tratamento dos dados de pesquisa. Os resultados mostraram que os primeiros trabalhos indexados na Web of Science datam de 1988 e que, até 2014, foram produzidos 458 artigos. A produção científica se mostrou estável nos últimos anos. Os autores mais produtivos foram Gomez, Fourie e Aharony. Não se observou uma alta concentração em um grupo específico, mas sim uma ampla difusão de autores. Identificou-se que são cinco os periódicos com maior produtividade, responsáveis por um terço do total da produção científica: Electronic Library, Program Electronic Library and Information Systems, Library Hi Tech, Library Trends e Libri. As principais palavras-chave indexadas pela Web of Science foram: Academic Library, Internet, Digital Library, Information Retrieval, Librarians e Mobile Services. São abordagens muito presentes no desenvolvimento de produtos, serviços, softwares e aplicativos na sociedade atual.

scholarly journals Bringing Treasures to the Surface: Iterative Design for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program

2003 ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Catherine Plaisant ◽  
Gary Marchionini ◽  
Tom Bruns ◽  
Anita Komlodi ◽  
Laura Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Iterative Design ◽  
Library Program

A study to evaluate the digitization level of Korean libraries (part I)

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 314-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Younghee Noh
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Wide Margin ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
Library Program ◽  
Reference Service

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discover and enumerate the elements of the digital library and measure how much an individual library was equipped with the characteristics of the digital library accordingly. Design/methodology/approach – For this purpose several steps were taken. First, research on the characteristics and the representative services of the digital library were comprehensively reviewed. Second, examples of the library services that were being considered for the next generation digital library were investigated to compare with the conventional library services. Third, the elements of the conventional and the digital libraries initially extracted were examined by ten experts. These experts were composed of researchers and professors specializing in digital libraries, and career librarians who had worked in the digital library field for at least ten years. The elements were verified through discussions with them. Fourth, 19 university libraries, 16 public libraries, and 17 special libraries were selected in accordance with the verified elements of the conventional and the digital libraries to measure the digitization level of the libraries. Findings – The following is a summary of the evaluation of the first eight evaluation items, which are covered in Part 1 of this study. The remaining five items will be covered in Part 2. First, the digitization level of the acquisition element and classification and cataloguing was significantly high. Second, book collections excluding “digital video,” reference service, library program service, and space service showed significantly conventional characteristics. Third, in the element of circulation services, the item of lending books offline and returning the books scored 92.64 and the item of lending-returning with use of smart devices and social media obtained significantly low scores. Also, the average in using the book return desk for the circulation service was 81.39, much higher than using the automatic book return machine, which scored 18.61, by a wide margin. Fourth, in the element of user services, the digital item of providing support for mobile services related to the library resources demonstrated higher scores than the conventional item, but other items showed more conventional characteristics. In particular, the item of duplication services for material scored 94.99, but other items such as support for publication/bookbinding services using digital publication tools and devices obtained significantly low scores. Originality/value – This study is first study in the world to measure the level of digitization of the library. Therefore, hereafter, each library will be able to measure and determine its digital position based on these elements. Up to now, some research was performed in pursuit of extracting the elements of a library but it has relied solely on literature review. Comprehensive research had never been performed as in this study.

Interfaces and tools for the library of congress national digital library program

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Marchionini ◽  
Catherine Plaisant ◽  
Anita Komlodi
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Library Program

The national SMETE digital library program (panel session)

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Muramatsu ◽  
Cathryn A. Manduca ◽  
Marcia Mardis ◽  
James H. Lightbourne ◽  
Flora P. McMartin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Panel Session ◽  
Library Program
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