• Assigning SLIS class Web server accounts and probably CONTENTdm digital library accounts (if available).
• What is a digital library; what is not a digital library;
• Different views and definitions of digital libraries;
• Causes for different communities working on digital libraries;
• Overview of issues involved in building digital libraries;
• Digital library projects, initiatives and standards.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 1, Evolution of Libraries.
• Reese, Chapter 1, Planning a Digital Repository
• Besser, H., 2004. The past, present, and future of digital libraries. In Schreibman, S., Siemens R., and Unsworth, J. (Eds.), Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford: Blackwell. Link.
• Coffman, S., 2012. The decline and fall of the library empire. Searcher, 20(3), 14-47. Link.
• Agresta, M., 2014. What will become of the library? How it will evolve as the world goes digital. Slate. Link.

Useful Resources

• Varner, S. & Hswe, P., 2016. Special report: Digital humanities in libraries. American Libraries, January 4, 2016. Link.
• Johnson , B., 2014. Whither libraries? Publishing, data, and the new literary arts. Computers in Libraries, 34 (10), 6-10. Excerpt.
• Borgman, C. L., 1999. What are digital Libraries -- Competing Visions, Information Processing & Management, 35(3), 227-243. (Available online at LSU Libraries.)
• Candela, L. et al., 2007. Setting the foundations of digital libraries: The DELOS Manifesto. D-Lib Magazine, 13 (3/4). Link.
• Bush, V., 1945. As We May Think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101-108. Link.
• Griffin, S. M., 1998. NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspective. D-Lib Magazine (July/August). Link.
• Lesk, M., 2012. A personal history of digital libraries. Library Hi Tech 30(1), 592-603. Link.
• President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, 2001. Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge - Report to the President. PDF.
• Maurer, H. & Mueller, H., 2013. Can the Web turn into a digital library? International Journal on Digital Libraries 13(2), 65-75.
• Ross, L. & Sennyey, P., 2008. The Library is Dead, Long Live the Library! The practice of academic librarianship and the digital revolution. Journal of Academic Librarianship 34(2), 145-152.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• delivery systems;
• metadata.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 3, Images of Pages.
• Reese, Chapter 2, Acquiring, Processing, Classifying, and Describing Digital Content
• Landon, G., 2009. Toward digitizing all forms of documentation.[deteriorated manuscripts and photography]. D-Lib Magazine, 15(3/4). Link.
• University of Colorado Digital Library, 2009. Digitization best practices. PDF.
• Minnesota Digital Library, 2015. Standards and best practices. Link

Useful Resources

• Howard Besser with revisions by Sally Hubbard and Deborah Lenert, 2003. Introduction to Imaging. Link.
• Choosing a File Format for Digital Still Images. May 2006. Link.
• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2002. Guidelines for digitization projects for collections and holdings in the public domain, particularly those held by libraries and archives.
• Digitizing 3-D objects:
  • Jill Hurst-Wahl's blog (2008). Digitizing three-dimensional objects. Link
  • CARLI Digital Collections Users (2013). Digitization best practices for three-dimensional objects. Link
  • Valentino, Maura & Shults, Brian (2012). Creating a digital library of three-dimensional objects in CONTENTdm. OCLC Systems & Services: International Digital Library Perspectives 28(4): 208-220. Link
• Lopatin, L., 2006. Library digitization projects, issues and guidelines: A survey of the literature. Library Hi Tech, 24(2), 273-289.
• Mackey, T.P., Jacobson, T.E., 2011. Reframing information literacy as a metaliteracy. College and Research Libraries 72(1), 62-78.
• Witten, Section 4.5, Representing images (pp. 194-205); Section 5.5, Metadata for images and multimedia (pp. 261-266).

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues about text and books;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• Unicode;
• delivery systems;
• metatada.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 2, Text Documents.
• Bearman, D., 2006. Jean-Noel Jeanneney's critique of Google: Private sector book digitization and digital library policy. D-Lib Magazine 12, December issue. Link
• Eichenlaub, N., 2013. Checking in with Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA. Computers in Libraries 33(9), 4-9. Link.
• Breeding M., 2014. Ongoing challenges in digitization. Computers in Libraries, 34(9), 16-18.
• Mendelsson, D., Amalya, E.F., Oliver, L., 2014. The Albert Einstein archives digitization project: opening hidden treasures. Library Hi Tech, 32 2), 318-335. Link
• Browse EAD Web site. Encoding Archival Description (EAD) Example:
  • An EAD document (use Firefox)
  • EAD DTD

Useful Resources

• A Gentle Introduction to XML. Link.
• Arms, Chapter 9, Text
• Grogg, J.E. & Ashmore, B., 2007. Google book search libraries and their digital copies what now? Searcher: Magazine for Database Professionals 15(4), 18-27.
• Browse TEI Guidelines (TEI P4), Section 1.
• Hughes, Lorna M., 2004. Digitizing Collections: Strategic Issues for the Information Manager. London: Facet Publishing.
  • Chapter 10, Digitization of text and images
• Lopatin, L., 2006. Library digitization projects, issues and guidelines: A survey of the literature. Library Hi Tech 24(2), 273-289.
• Mackey, T.P., Jacobson, T.E., 2011. Reframing information literacy as a metaliteracy. College and Research Libraries 72(1), 62-78.
• Ooghe, B. & Moreels, D., 2009. Analysing selection for digitisation: Current practices and common incentives. D-Lib Magazine 15(9-10), Link.
• Tedd, Lucy A. & Large, Andrew, 2005. Digital Libraries: Principles and Practice in a Global Environment, Munchen: K. G. Saur Verlag. (Middleton Stacks ZA4080.T43)
  • Chapter 3, Digital information sources
• Witten, Chapter 2, Preliminaries, pp. 39-76.
• Witten, Chapter 4, Documents, Section 4.1-4.3, (pp. 131-184???).

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• metadata for representing and organizing digital objects
• basic elements of Dublin Core for digital objects
• functionalities of the major comonents of XML
• creating simple XML documents for describing digital objects

Required Readings

• Reese, Chapter 4, General Purpose Technologies Useful for Digital Repositories
• Reese, Chapter 5, Metadata Formats
• Byrne, G. & Goddard, L., 2010. The strongest link: Libraries and linked data. D-Lib Magazine 16(11/12). Link (many resources)
• Gill et al., 2008. Introduction to Metadata, Online Edition, Version 3.0. Link. (click the link on its left navigation pane)
• Papadakis,I., Kyprianos, K. & Stefanidakis, M., 2015. Linked Data URIs and libraries: The story so far. D-Lib Magazine, 21(5/6). Link.

Useful Resources

• Najjar, J., Wolpers M. and Duval E., 2007. Contextualized Attention Metadata - Personalized Access to Digital Resources. D-Lib Magazine, 13 (9/10). Link.
• NISO, 2004. Understanding metadata. Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization. Link.
• Arms, Chapter 10, Information retrieval and descriptive metadata.
• National Information Standards Organization (NISO), 2013. The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. PDF.
• Westbrook, R. N., Johnson, D., Carter, K., & Lockwood, A., 2012. Metadata clean sweep: A digital library audit project. D-Lib Magazine 18(5/6). Link.
• Witten, Section 2.2, Bibliographic Organization; Section 5.2, XML; Section 5.4, Bibliographic Metadata; Section 5.6, Extracting Metadata.
• METS: An Overview & Tutorial, 2006. Link.
• Berners-Lee, Tim, Hendler, James, and Lassila, Ora, 2001. The Semantic Web. Link.
• Lynch, Clifford A., 2001. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative. ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 217 (2001): 1-9. Link.
• Day, Michael, 1999. Metadata for Images: Emerging Practice and Standards. Link.
• Dalmau, Michelle, Floyd, Randall, Jiao Dazhi and Jenn Riley, 2005. Integrating Thesaurus Relationships into Search and Browse in an Online Photograph Collection. Library Hi Tech 23(3), 2005: 425-452. PDF. (online paper also available from LSU Libraries.)
• Open Archives Initiative. Link.
• Joshua Tauberer, Joshua, 2006. What is RDF? Link.
• Official Page of RDF at W3C. http://www.w3c.org/RDF/.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• general issues;
• digitization processes and standards;
• formats;
• delivery systems;
• metadata;

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 4, Multimedia storage and retrieval.
• Witten, Section 4.6, Representing Audio and Video, pp. 206-215.
• Digitizing sound files. PDF. (See references in this article)
• New York University Libraries, 2013. Digitizing Video for Long-Term Preservation: An RFP Guide and Template. PDF.
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials: VII. Audio/Video Capture and Management (PDF)

Useful Resources

• Audio archiving resources, 2007. Link.
• Lesk, Chapter 6, Distribution.
• Rutledge, Lloyd. Multimedia Standards: Building Blocks of the Web. IEEE Multimedia. Link.
• Murphyt, William, 1997. Television/Video Preservation 1997: A Report on the Current State of American Television and Video Preservation, p. xi, at PDF.
• Media Matters, LLC, 2004. Digital Video Preservation Report of the Dance Heritage Coalition, DOC.
• Chisholm, Duncan, Gibson, Chris, Hunter, Jeff, Pearce, Andrew, and Smith, Cathy, 2004. Archiving Interactive Digital Television. Link.
• Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 2004. Acquisition and Deposit of Unpublished Audio and Audiovisual Transmission Programs, Federal Register, 69(206), 26 October 2004, pp. 62411. Link.
• Ubois, Jeff, 2005. New approaches to television archiving. First Monday, 10(3), 2005 March. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• digital objects and DOI;
• representation of digital objects;
• major components of digital libraries;
• ideas behind various digital library architecture;
• SOA and digital libraries;
• Digital library software;
• contentDM tutorial.

Required Readings

• Arms, Chapter 12, Object Models, Identifiers, and Structural Metadata.
• Arms, W. Y., 1995. Key Concepts in the Architecture of the Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, 1(1). Link.
• Reese, Chapter 3, Choosing a Repository Architecture
• Erickson, John, 2003. Digital Object Identifier, In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology 2003. PDF.
• Henry, Geneva, 2012. Core Infrastructure Considerations for Large Digital Libraries. Council on Library and Information Resources. PDF.
• For an introduction to CONTENTdm, visit Contentdm.org. Click "Download brochure." This is an internal link on their Website. If the link is broken, please search the Web for "CONTNETdm" to get an introduction.

Useful Resources

• Arms, Chapter 11: Distributed Information Discovery
• Arms, Chapter 2, or "An Overview of World Wide Web" Link.
• Internet Pioneers. Link.
• Fedora architecture. Link.
• Staples, 2003. The Fedora Project - An Open-source Digital Object Repository Management System. Link.
• DSpace. Link.
• Smith et al., 2003. DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository. D-Lib Magazine, January, 2003. Link.
• Greeenstone. Link.
• MediaWiki. Link.
• Drupal content management platform. Link.
• Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments (Simile). Link.
• Universal Document Naming Systems: Links. Link.
• Rhyno, Art, 2004. Open Source Relational Databases for Digital Libraries. In: Rhyno, Art. Using open source systems for digital libraries. Westport, Conn.; London: Libraries Unlimited; 2004; Chapter 5, pp. 59-67. ZA4080.R48 2004.
• Witten, I. H., 2008. The Development and Usage of the Greenstone Digital Library Software. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 35 (2), 31-38.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• knowledge organization schemes,
• content organization.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 5, Knowledge representation schemes.
• Brazier, C., 2013. born. digital@ british.library: The opportunities and challenges of implementing a digital collection development strategy. IFLA World Library and Information Congress, 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, 17-23 August 2013, Singapore. PDF.
• Lehman, K.A., 2014.Collection development and management. An overview of the literature, 2011-12. Library Research and Technical Service, 58(3), 169-177.
• Horava, Tony, 2010. Challenges and possibilities for collection management in a digital age. Library Resources & Technical Services 54(3), 142-152. PDF.
• NISO, 2007. Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. PDF.

Useful Resources

• Westervelt T., 2015. Acquisition and management of digital content at the Library of Congress. Serials Librarian, 68(1-4), 269-273.
• Hodge, G. (2000). Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files. Link.
• Kenyon, Ralph E. Jr. 2004. Organizing Knowledge (an end user's view). Link.
• NKOS - Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services. Link.
• Pepper, Steve. The TAO of Topic Maps. Link.
• DAML+OIL (March 2001) Reference Description. Link.
• Library of Congress. Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers. Link.
• Digital Libraries - Online Publications, Exhibits, Documents & Journals. Link.
• Wrightson, Ann, 2001. Topic maps and Knowledge Representations. Link.
• SKOS - Simple Knowledge Organization System, Link.
• Arms, C., and Arms, W., 2004. Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World. In Metadata in Practice, edited by D. Hillmann and E. Westbrooks, ALA Editions. Link.
• DLF, 2004. Digital Library Content and Course Management Systems: Issues of Interoperation. Link.
• Smith, A. (2001). Strategies for Building Digitized Collections. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• user-centered design;
• search and access interfaces;
• usability;
• evaluation of digital libraries.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 7, Usability and retrieval evaluation.
• Arms, Chapter 8, User interfaces and usability.
• Hariri, N., Norouzi, Y., 2011. Determining evaluation criteria for digital libraries' user interface: A review. Electronic Library 29(5), 698-722. Link.
• Moreira, B.L., Goncalves, M.A., Laender, A.H.F., Fox, E.A., 2009. Automatic evaluation of digital libraries with 5SQual. Journal of Informetrics 3(2), 102-123. Link.
• Snead, J.T., 2014. Public libraries, evaluation, and E-government. The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, 84(4), 467-480. Link. (Link requires LSU IP address)
• Tsakonas, G., Mitrelis, A., Papachristopoulos, L. and Papatheodorou, C., 2013. An exploration of the digital library evaluation literature based on an ontological representation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 64(9), 1914-1926. Link. (Link requires LSU IP address)

Useful Resources

• Zhang, Y., 2010. Developing a holistic model for digital library evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61(1), 88-110. PDF.
• Goncalves, M. et al., 2007. "What is a good digital library?" - A quality model for digital libraries. Information Processing and Management 43, 1416-1437.
• Taskonas, Giannis & Papatheodorou, Christos, 2011. An ontological representation of the digital library evaluation domain. JASIST, 62(8). Link (accessible on campus)
• Blandford, Ann, Keith, Suzette, Connell, Iain, and Edwards, Helen, 2004. Analytical usability evaluation for digital libraries: a case study. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. [PDF at MDX] [PDF at IEEE].
• Notess, Mark and Inna Kouper and Maggie B. Swan, 2005. Designing Effective Tasks for Digital Library User Tests: Lessons Learned." OCLC Systems & Services 21: 300-310. [Link] (Also available online at LSU Libraries: http://www.lib.lsu.edu.)
• Kostkova, P., Madle, G., 2013. What impact do healthcare digital libraries have? An evaluation of national resource of infection control at the point of care using the Impact-ED framework. International Journal on Digital Libraries 13(2):77-90.
• McDermott, I. E., 2013. Evaluate this! Computers in Libraries 33(1), 35-38.
• Tsakonas, G., Mitrelis, A., Papachristopoulos, L. and Papatheodorou, C., 2013. An exploration of the digital library evaluation literature based on an ontological representation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64(9), 1914-1926.
• Megan Oakleaf for Association of College and Research Libraries, 2010. The value of academic libraries: A comprehensive research review and report. PDF.
• Saracevic, Tefko, 2004. Evaluation of digital libraries: An overview. PDF.
• An Atlas of Cyberspace--Information Space Maps. Link.
• Krebs, V., 2008. The Social Life of Books, Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• evaluate various retrieval methods developed in DL;
• examine various approaches for meta-search and federate search in DL;

Required Readings

• Reese, Chapter 6, Sharing Data: Metadata Harvesting and Distribution
• Reese, Chapter 7, Federated Searching of Repositories
• Reese, Chapter 8, Access Management
• Arms, Chapter 11, Distributed Information Discovery (Interoperability, Federated digital libraries)
• Casad, M., Rieger O.Y., and Alexander D., 2015. Enduring Access to Rich Media Content: Understanding Use and Usability Requirements. D-Lib Magazine, 21 (9/10). Link

Useful Resources

• Baggett, Mark and Gibbs, Rabia, 2014. Historypin and Pinterest for Digital Collections: Measuring the Impact of Image-Based Social Tools on Discovery and Access. Journal of Library Administration 54(1), 11-22. Link. [Link requires LSU IP address.]
• Kristin R. Eschenfelder, K. R. and Agnew, Grace, 2010. Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections. D-Lib Magazine, 2010, 16(1/2). Link
• Batty, David, WWW -- Wealth, Weariness or Waste: Controlled vocabulary and thesauri in support of online information access. D-Lib Magazine, Nov. 1998. Link
• Higgins, Silke and King, Martin Luther, 2013. Access to Digital Libraries for Disadvantaged Users. Library Philosophy & Practice April 2013, 1-13.
• Martin, R. S., 2003. Reaching across Library Boundaries. In: Emerging Visions for Access in the Twenty-first Century Library. (CLIR report & CDL Conference Proceedings). PDF.
• Miller, Todd, 2004. Federated Searching: Put It in Its Place. Library Journal, April 15, 2004.
• Library of Congress, 2005. Federated Search Portal Products & Vendors. Link.
• Smith, A. G., 2000. Search features of digital libraries. Information Research, 5(3). Link.
• Dong, Andy, Fixler, Eric and Agogino, Alice, 2004. A Case Study of Policy Decisions for Federated Search Across Digital Libraries. Proceedings of ICDL 2004. The Energy and Resources Institute, Vol. 2, 892-898, 2004. PDF.
• Lossau, Norbert, 2004. Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet. D-Lib Magazine 10(6). Link.
• Papadakis, I. et al., 2009. Subject-based Information Retrieval within Digital Libraries Employing LCSHs. D-Lib Magazine 15(9/10). Link.
• Paepcke, A., 1996. Digital Libraries: Searching Is Not Enough. D-Lib Magazine, May 1996. Link.
• The Truth About Federated Searching. Information Today, October 2003. Link.
• Lynch, Clifford A., 1997. The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard, Part 1: A Strategic View of its Past, Present, and Future. D-Lib Magazine, April 1997. Link.
• Schart, Bruce R., 1997. Information Retreival in Digital Libraries, Science, 275. PDF.
• Lossau, Norbert, 2004. Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet. D-Lib Magazine, 10(6), June 2004. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• new challenges in digital preservation;
• basic strategies for digital preservation;
• OAIS model for preservation;
• purposes and functions of preservation metadata.
• digital repositories and digital archives.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 9, Collections and preservations.
• Chowdhury, G., 2014. Sustainability of digital libraries: A conceptual model and a research framework. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 14 (3-4), 181-195.
• Kastellec, M., 2012. Practical Limits to the Scope of Digital Preservation. Information Technology and Libraries 31(2). Link.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, 2012. Digital preservation tutorial. Link.
• Neal, J. G., 2015. Preserving the born-digital record: Many more questions than answers. American Libraries, June 11, 2015. Link.

Useful Resources

• Latif A., Borst T. and Tochtermann K., 2014. Exposing Data From an Open Access Repository for Economics As Linked Data, D-Lib Magazine, 20(9/10). Link
• Bailey, C.W., 2013. Research data curation bibliography. Houston Digital Scholarship. Link.
• Beaudoin, J.E., 2012. Context and its role in the digital preservation of cultural objects. D-Lib Magazine 18(11/12). Link.
• Li, Y. & Banach, M., 2011. Institutional repositories and digital preservation: assessing current practices at research libraries. D-Lib Magazine 17(5/6). Link.
• Webb, Colin, Pearson, David, and Koerbin, Paul, 2013. 'Oh, you wanted us to preserve that?!' Statements of Preservation Intent for the National Library of Australia's Digital Collections. D-Lib Magazine 19(1/2). Link.
• Bailey, C.W., 2013. Research data curation bibliography. Houston Digital Scholarship. Link.
• Beard, I., 2010. Digital curation: Current standards and documentation. Rutgers University Libraries. Link.
• Conway, P., 2010. Preservation in the age of Google: digitization, digital preservation, and dilemmas. Library Quarterly 80(1), 61-79.
• Hitchcock, S. et al., 2007. Digital preservation service provider models for institutional repositories: Towards distributed services. D-Lib Magazine 13(5/6). Link.
• Lynch, C. A., 2003. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age. ARL: A Bimonthly Report, No.226, February, 2003. Link.
• Friedlander, Amy, 2002. National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program - Expectations, Realities, Choices and Progress to Date. D-Lib Magazine, April 2002. Link.
• Hedstrom, Margaret, 2002. Research Challenges in Digital Archiving and Long-term Preservation. PDF.
• Jones, Maggie, and Beagrie, Neil, 2001. Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook. (Introduction and Digital Preservation sections.) Link.
• Lavoie, Brian F., 2004. The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide. PDF.
• Jantz, R. & Giarlo, M. J., 2005. Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories. D-Lib Magazine, June 2005. Link.
• Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities, An RLG-OCLC Report. May 2002. PDF.
• Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI), National Library of Australia. Link.
• Cornell University Library, 2007. Digital Preservation Tutorial. Link.
• Rothenberg, Jeff, 1999. Ensuring the Longevity of Digital Information. PDF.
• UNESCO, 2003. Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage. PDF.
• Building a National Strategy for Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving (CLIR report, April, 2002). Link.
• Rothenberg, Jeff, 1998. Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for Digital Preservation. CLIR Report. Link.
• Library Preservation at Harvard. Link.
• Digital Library Federation's Digital Preservation. Link.
• Library of Congress, Digital Preservation. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• social life of documents;
• social impacts of DL, social issues in designing and developing DL;
• access management: elements, issues, technologies,
• models for making DLs sustainable,
• long term implications related to the issue of access vs ownership.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 10, Economics.
• Bergstrom, T., 2010. Librarians and the terrible fix: Economics of the big deal. Serials: the Journal of the Serials Community 23(2), 77-82. Link.
• Maron, N.L. & Pickle, S., 2013. Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries Association of Research Libraries. PDF.
• UCLA, 1996. Social Aspects of Digital Libraries. The final report of UCLA-NSF Social Aspects of Digital Libraries Workshop. Link
• Poynder, R., 2011. The Big Deal: Not price but cost. Information Today, 28(8). Link.

Useful Resources

• Association of Research Libraries (2014). Annual editions of the ARL statistics. Link.
• Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul. 1995. The Social Life of Documents. Link or PDF.
• Boissy R.W. et al., 2012. Is the "big deal"dying? Serials Review 38(1), 36-45.
• Breeding, M., 2008. Helping you buy electronic resource management systems. Computers in Libraries 28(7), 6-18, 94-96.
• Collins, T., 2012. The current budget environment and its impact on libraries, publishers and vendors. Journal of Library Administration 52 (1), 18-35.
• Buckland, Michael, 1997. What is a "Document"? JASIS, 48(9):804-809. Link.
• Digital library security. Link.
• Arms, William Y., 2005. A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library, D-Lib Magazine, 11(7/8), July/August 2005. Link.
• Nunberg, Geoffrey, 1993. The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction. Link.
• Roush, Wade, 2005. The Infinite Library: Does Google's plan to digitize millions of print books spell the death of libraries; or their rebirth? MIT Technology Review, May 2005. Link.
• Gladney, H. M. and Lotspiech, J. B., 1997. Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users Assuring Convenient Security and Data Quality. D-Lib Magazine, May 1997. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• Users' needs,
• Digital librarians,
• Long tail,
• Use and impact .

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 8, user needs
• Pussadee Nonthacumjane, 2011. Key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals. IFLA 2011, Puerto Rico. PDF.
• Dey, T., 2012. Cybrarian: the librarian of future digital library. International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology, 2(3), 209-211. Link.
• Zavalina, Oksana and Vassilieva, Elena V., 2014. Understanding the information needs of large-scale digital library users: comparative analysis of user searching. Library Resources & Technical Services, 58(2), p84-99. PDF.
• Choi, Y. & Rasmussen, E., 2006. What do digital librarians do? JCDL, 2006. (Available in IEEE XPlore (at least works on LSU computers) and ACM DL

Useful Resources

• Katrina Fenlon, K. et al., 2014. Scholar-built collections: A study of user requirements for research in large-scale digital libraries. ASIST 2014. PDF.
• Coleman, A. & Sumner, T., 2004. Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future. Journal of Digital Information, 5(3), Link.
• Dempsey, L., 2006. Libraries and the long tail. D-Lib Magazine, April, 2006. Link.
• Choi, Y., 2006. What is needed to educate future digital librarians: A study of current practice and staffing patterns in academic and research libraries. D-Lib Magazine 12(9). Link.
• Tennant, Roy. 2002. Digital Libraries- The Digital Librarian Shortage. Library Journal, 3/15/2002. Link.
• Sreenivasulu, V., 2000. The role of a digital librarian in the management of digital information systems (DIS). The Electronic Library, 18(1). PDF.
• The Long Tail (Wikipedia). Link.
• Choi, Y. & Rasmussen, E., 2006. What is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians. D-Lin Magazine, Sept. 2006. Link.
• Marion, Linda, 2001. Digital Librarian, Cybrarian, or Librarian with Specialized Skills: Who Will Staff Digital Libraries? Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Denver, Colorado, March 15-18, 2001, pp143-149. PDF.
• Hastings, K. & Tennant, R., 1996. How to Build a Digital Librarian. D-Lib Magazine, November 1996. Link.
• Steele, Colin. & Guha, M., 1999. Staffing the Digital Library in the 21st Century. Link.
• Tennant, R., 1998. The Most Important Management Decision: Hiring Staff for the New Millennium. Library Journal, February 15, 1998. Link.
• Tennant, R., 2002. Digital Libraries - The Digital Librarian Shortage. Library Journal, March 15, 2002. Link.

Lecture slides and other notes will be available on Moodle.

• copyright issues in DLs;
• controversial nature of privacy;
• balance between privacy protection and the desire of building better systems;
• major achievements in the past 10 years;
• Web 2.0 and Library 2.0;
• digital libraries and learning;
• directions of the development of DLs in the next 10 years;
• Final review.

Required Readings

• Lesk, Chapter 11, Intellectual properties.
• Lesk, Chapter 14, Future: ubiquity, diversity, creativity, and public policy.
• Reese, Chapter 9, Planning for the Future
• Reese, Chapter 10, Conclusions
• Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2014. 10 thoughts on digital libraries: where they're going. Link

Useful Resources

• Piper, P.S., 2013. The library's future Is digital. Online Searcher, 37(2), 22-26.
• Rasmus, D.W., 2013. Uncertainty and the future of libraries. Computers in Libraries, 33(10), 4-7. Link
• Stanford University Libraries, 2015. Copyright and fair use articles. Link.
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