scholarly journals Ethics and Cyber Libraries: Challenges Facing the Values and Ethics in LIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Omer
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
The Future ◽  
Electronic Sources

Cyber libraries face many challenges when it comes to access. These challenges can lead to cyber libraries failing in following the guidelines for the values and ethics of the LIS professional. Some authors have argued that cyber libraries are the future of libraries. They argue that patrons want information immediately at their fingertips. The fact that library budgets are shrinking and electronic sources can be cheaper cause many libraries to lean more towards the idea of cyber libraries. However, while digital libraries do have their advantages, they are not perfect. We live in a time where librarians have their feet in two worlds; a world of technology and a world of paper.

scholarly journals Digital libraries of the future – and the role of libraries

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Castelli
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
The Future

Library leaders on digital libraries and the future of the research library

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford Lynch ◽  
Charles Henry ◽  
Sarah Pritchard ◽  
Betsy L. Humphreys ◽  
Brian Schottlaender
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Research Library ◽  
The Future

A review of quality evaluation of digital libraries based on users’ perceptions

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Heradio ◽  
David Fernández-Amorós ◽  
Francisco Javier Cabrerizo ◽  
Enrique Herrera-Viedma
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
The Past ◽  
User Communities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Shed Light

In the past two decades, the use of digital libraries (DLs) has grown significantly. Accordingly, questions about the utility, usability and cost of DLs have started to arise, and greater attention is being paid to the quality evaluation of this type of information system. Since DLs are destined to serve user communities, one of the main aspects to be considered in DL evaluation is the user’s opinion. The literature on this topic has produced a set of varied criteria to judge DLs from the user’s perspective, measuring instruments to elicit users’ opinions, and approaches to analyse the elicited data to conclude an evaluation. This paper provides a literature review of the quality evaluation of DLs based on users’ perceptions. Its main contribution is to bring together previously disparate streams of work to help shed light on this thriving area. In addition, the various studies are discussed, and some challenges to be faced in the future are proposed.

The Future of Learning with Digital Libraries

2009 ◽  
pp. 543-551
Author(s):  
Chang Chew-Hung ◽  
John G. Hedberg
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Information Gathering ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Higher Order Learning ◽  
The Right

While the prospect of using digital libraries for learning becomes more appealing with growing repositories of resources, it is not clear what factors other than the use of technology, determine the learning outcome for an individual. The focus of research on using digital libraries for learning has been on the richness of information that digital libraries afford and on the ability of digital libraries to organize information for information query and research. Any meaningful learning activity using digital libraries must therefore utilize their features for exploration and information gathering around a well designed task or inquiry, to result in effective higher order learning outcomes. The design of the inquiry task is provided by a teacher or even devised by the student, but it is not necessarily inherent within the digital library. However, digital libraries have the capabilities to be more supportive of student learning by providing tools that support processes such as investigation, analysis, transduction of information and scaffolding of inquiry process. Often, students use the digital library for information gathering but turn to other software applications for organizing information and constructing the arguments and learning artifacts for the learning task. While it requires the teachers’—and maybe students’—resourcefulness to choose the right type of tool for the activity, the future of learning with digital libraries rests on integrating supportive tools into a seamless learning environment.

Patent and Trade Secret in Digital Libraries

2009 ◽  
pp. 330-335
Author(s):  
Hideyasu Sasaki
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Trade Secret ◽  
Intellectual Property Protection ◽  
Parameter Setting ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
The Future ◽  
Intellectual Properties ◽  
The U.S

In this chapter, we discuss the issues on patent and trade secret issues on digital libraries, especially patentable parameter-setting components which are implemented as computer-related inventions in digital libraries. In addition, we discuss the directions for embedding and protecting numerical parametric information as a trade secret in the patentable parameter-setting components performing retrieval operations of digital libraries with the future of intellectual property protection in the multimedia digital libraries. The scope of this chapter is restricted within the current standard of the U.S. laws and cases in transnational transaction and licensing of intellectual properties regarding the digital library.

Children Shaping the Future of Digital Libraries

First Monday ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Druin
Keyword(s):  
Digital Libraries ◽  
The Future
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