Building Digital Libraries: A How-to-Do-It Manual

by Terry Reese, Kyle Banerjee

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 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.

Genres: School

277 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

Reviews

[Jenny]

One of the more useful texts in the process of - as the title says - building a digital library.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gotta go library geek a little bit -- This book is great for the initial planning stages of a digital library project. Easy to understand, this book articulates the considerations and concerns that should be on every digital librarian's radar when specifying metadata and systems.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well, you can really only like this book as much as you can like any textbook, but it certainly did a good job of examining pertinent issues concerning the creation, execution, and management of digital libraries. So that's something....

[darce vader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Solid little book, though I'm sure by now it's already dated.