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Using massive digital libraries : a LITA guide

Using massive digital libraries : a LITA guide

Weiss, Andrew
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Some have viewed the ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the traditional library. But Weiss, recognizing the concept of the library as a "big idea" that has been implemented in many ways over thousands of years, is not so gloomy. In this thought-provoking and unabashedly optimistic book, they explore how massive digital libraries are already adapting to society's needs, and look ahead to the massive digital libraries of tomorrow, covering



  • The author's criteria for defining massive digital libraries

  • A history of Google Books and the Very Large Digital Library, with a refresher on the initial protests of the scholarly communication community

  • Practices of massive digital libraries, and how traditional libraries are evolving to integrate their presence

  • A comparison of the collection development approaches of Google Books and HathiTrust

  • Library applications, such as MDL for research in digital humanities, catalog integration through the Google Book API, Culturenomics, and the Google Ngram viewer

  • Case studies of library projects with Google Books, with analysis of aspects such as legibility of scans, metadata accuracy, culture, and diversity


Providing a solid grounding on the concept of massive digital libraries, and their strengths and weaknesses as digital information tools, this book will help librarians understand how they function and what we can expect in the future.

Year:
2014
Edition:
First edition
Publisher:
Amer Library Assn;American Library Association, ALA TechSource
Language:
english
Pages:
163
ISBN 10:
083891974X
ISBN 13:
9780838919743
Series:
LITA guides
File:
PDF, 6.43 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2014
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