Digital Libraries
Integrating Content and Systems

Mark V. Dahl (Author), Kyle Banerjee (Author), Michael Spalti (Author)

9781843341550, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 30 June 2006

224 pages
23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm, 0.32 kg

Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual institutions.

Introduction
Enabling technologies
The role of standards in digital library integration
Authentication, identity management and security
Interfacing with integrated library systems
Electronic resource management
Digital asset management
Integration with content providers
Library portals
Conclusion: digital libraries and the library organisation.

Subject Areas: Library & information sciences [GL]