"The Digital Library Survival Guide" by Joseph R. Matthews was published in May 2011. It is an excellent book for all librarians who are moving into the digital library arena. It is written in a concise manner that will easily guide you through the migration process from traditional/hybrid to digital. The book briefly discusses the evolution of libraries and the technologies that enables them to effectively manage ever growing digital library assets.
Dr. Steve Matthews has mentioned The Digital Library Survival Guide in his blog below:
http://21stcenturylibrary.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/who-knows-what-a-digital-library-will-be-%e2%80%93-nobody/
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The Digital Public Library of America Steering Committee is looking for ideas from individuals, libraries, organizations, and others that could play a part in the building of a digital public library. The DPLA “beta sprint” seeks models, tools, or interfaces that demonstrate how it might index and provide access to a wide range of broadly distributed content. Participants must submit a short (400 words maximum) statement of interest by June 15....
Digital Public Library of America: Beta Sprint, May 20
Jennifer Howard writes: “There’s no shortage of fabulous archival material lurking in college and university collections. The trick is finding it. Without good metadata those archives are as good as closed to many students and scholars. But many institutions don’t have the resources or manpower to tag their archives thoroughly. Enter Metadata Games, a Dartmouth College experiment in harnessing the power of the crowd to create archival metadata.”...
Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus, May 23
Jamie LaRue writes: “To enable our patrons to sample the rich, untapped world of self-published and e-published writings, all we have to do is flip our processes upside down. We’ll let the public decide what our community should buy. Suppose we let any author or publisher upload their books to our catalog. The combination of a patron recommendation engine, virtual displays of e-content, and mobile apps to put all of that in the palm of your hand will make browsing our collection fun. If a book gets used and it gets rated well, then we buy it. If not, we delete the file.”...
LaRue’s Views, June 2
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