Digital Libraries in the Western Region of China

2018 ◽  
pp. 1621-1647
Author(s):  
Yongzhong Sha ◽  
Wenjing Hu ◽  
Wei Guo
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Western China ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Global Trend

The rapid technological development of the 21st century brought with it the rise of the digital library, which has become a global trend in university libraries. This chapter examines the construction and development of university digital libraries in western China. By investigating the current samples, consisting of 100 universities in the region, we try to reveal problems which arise during the construction process and discuss the future directions of university digital libraries in western China.

Digital Libraries in the Western Region of China

2016 ◽  
pp. 136-162
Author(s):  
Yongzhong Sha ◽  
Wenjing Hu ◽  
Wei Guo
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Western China ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Global Trend

The rapid technological development of the 21st century brought with it the rise of the digital library, which has become a global trend in university libraries. This chapter examines the construction and development of university digital libraries in western China. By investigating the current samples, consisting of 100 universities in the region, we try to reveal problems which arise during the construction process and discuss the future directions of university digital libraries in western China.

An Assessment of Digital Library Functions and Services in Nigerian Academic Libraries

2015 ◽  
pp. 229-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose ◽  
Stella C. Nduka ◽  
Olalekan A. Adekunjo ◽  
Innocent Okoedion
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Information Preservation ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Digital Contents

This chapter critically assess digital library functions and services in Nigeria academic libraries. It highlighted the roles of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) that brought about digital libraries. It is a collection of digital contents that is housed electronically and made available to users. The advantages of digital library were also discussed such as improved access, improved information preservation, it improved information sharing, it enhances library functions and services. Nigerian academic libraries has benefited from the enormous benefits of digital library. The chapter stressed that effort should be improved consortium building so as to improve the services Nigerian libraries render to their patrons. The chapter concludes that Digital library has come a long way in Nigeria, and 21st century libraries cannot afford to render services to users without digital contents added to the prints resources. Therefore, Nigeria libraries and information centres must cooperate in a formal consortia building; this will go a long way to reduce the burden of all participating libraries.

scholarly journals The Cultural Heritage of Printing in the 15-18th Centuries as Digital Resources – a Reconnaissance

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-186
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Fluda-Krokos
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Information Barriers ◽  
Lower Silesia

Digitization as an element of technological development has contributed to the removal of many information barriers related to access to the achievements of writing and printing culture. Thanks to numerous programs of developing and subsidizing work on intellectual property, digital libraries, museums and archives have been created, offering access to their collections online. Digital forms of priceless manuscripts, old prints, documents of social life and other manifestations of culture are not only a way of conservation and preservation of the originals or the presentation of library magazines, but also sources for research. The content of the Digital Library Federation – DLF, which associates 138 data providers, will be used as an example of digitized old prints along with ways of describing, searching, displaying results and special addons that make their use simple and effective. As a result of the research, 38,629 items marked as old prints were found in the database, supplied by 38 institutions, the most numerous being those provided by the Jagiellonian Digital Library and the Lower Silesia Digital Library, with the predominance of 18th and 17th century and Latin and Polish prints.

Quality and Interoperability

2011 ◽  
pp. 48-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Ferro
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Quality Issues

This chapter deals with the problem of defining and assessing the quality of a digital library. The chapter will provide a brief excursus on the evolution of digital libraries and their current complexity to make it clear that there is a strong need for systematic and exhaustive models which precisely define what digital libraries are and encompass a model for the quality of digital libraries. In this context, the authors will present an overview of the DELOS Reference Model for digital libraries and they will go into details about how quality has been modelled in it. The authors will also compare this model to another formal model for digital libraries, which is the Stream, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, Societies (5S) model. The discussion addressed in the chapter will not be limited to quality issues but will show how quality impact on various dimensions of the digital library universe. In particular, they will discuss how quality relates to interoperability. To this end, they will describe the conceptual model for interoperability developed in support to the European Digital Library initiative and will highlight its relationships with the quality domain in the DELOS Reference Model. Finally, the authors will outlook some future directions that may be pursued to improve and automate the assessment and evaluation of quality in digital libraries.

scholarly journals Persistent URLs and Citations Offered for Digital Objects by Digital Libraries

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Homenda
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Digital Object ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Digital Objects ◽  
The One ◽  
Equal Split

As libraries, archives, and museums make unique digital collections openly available via digital library platforms, they expose these resources to users who may wish to cite them. Often several URLs are available for a single digital object, depending on which route a user took to find it, but the chosen citation URL should be the one most likely to persist over time. Catalyzed by recent digital collections migration initiatives at Indiana University Libraries, this study investigates the prevalence of persistent URLs for digital objects at peer institutions and examines the ways their platforms instruct users to cite them. This study reviewed institutional websites from the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) published list of 195 members and identified representative digital objects from unique digital collections navigable from each institution’s main web page in order to determine persistent URL formats and citation options. Findings indicate an equal split between offering and not offering discernible persistent URLs with four major methods used: Handle, DOI, ARK, and PURL. Significant variation in labeling persistent URLs and inclusion in item-specific citations uncovered areas where the user experience could be improved for more reliable citation of these unique resources.

An Assessment of Digital Library Functions and Services in Nigerian Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
pp. 1545-1559
Author(s):  
Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose ◽  
Stella C. Nduka ◽  
Olalekan A. Adekunjo ◽  
Innocent Okoedion
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Information Preservation ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Digital Contents

This chapter critically assess digital library functions and services in Nigeria academic libraries. It highlighted the roles of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) that brought about digital libraries. It is a collection of digital contents that is housed electronically and made available to users. The advantages of digital library were also discussed such as improved access, improved information preservation, it improved information sharing, it enhances library functions and services. Nigerian academic libraries has benefited from the enormous benefits of digital library. The chapter stressed that effort should be improved consortium building so as to improve the services Nigerian libraries render to their patrons. The chapter concludes that Digital library has come a long way in Nigeria, and 21st century libraries cannot afford to render services to users without digital contents added to the prints resources. Therefore, Nigeria libraries and information centres must cooperate in a formal consortia building; this will go a long way to reduce the burden of all participating libraries.

THE USAGE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES IN TEACHING AND RESEARCHING (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE UNIVERSITY PROJECTS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 536-545
Author(s):  
Darejan Tvaltvadze ◽  
Irina Gvelesiani
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Digital Resources ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Future Outcomes ◽  
The University ◽  
Modern Technologies

The 21st century shifted the world communities to an “electronic” stage of evolution. Drastic changes can be visualized in literature, linguistics and other humanitarian sciences. The greatest attention is paid to the promotion of linguistic researches, which are oriented towards electronic documenting of the language as well as on the intensive usage of digital methodologies and modern technologies. The reliance on these “technics” enables contemporary Georgian scientists to achieve principally new results and verify different models or hypotheses. Despite these circumstances, a lot must be done in the sphere of Kartvelology. The paper presents the university projects, which are oriented towards: involvement of students in researching activities dealing with the corpus-building;promotion of the development of digital Kartvelology; facilitation of creation of Georgian and foreign  scholars’ digital library and  text-corpus;development of Georgian scientific meta-language, etc. Therefore, promotion of digitalization, development of scientific meta-language, facilitation of the preservation of well-known scholars’ works, creation of digital libraries and establishment of modern methods crucial for the promotion of up-to-date teaching processes  – these are the main issues of our paper and  integral problems of today’s educational world. The methodology of research includes observation, analysis and evaluation of ongoing projects and their already-achieved/future outcomes. Certain prospects are visualised.   

scholarly journals Digital Libraries in the New Millennium

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Zillur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Technical Issues

The concept of digital library is not a new one, although it is only recently that digital library is gaining prominence all over the world. This article provides a holistic understanding of digital libraries including its present context and future directions. Various technical issues ingrained in the concept of digital library also has been analysed in the article. Issues like interoperability, information retrieval, property and access control and usability also has been discussed in detail. Although digital library is a technical phenomenon, it has wider social and economic implications. The article casts a critical glance at these implications as well. In the end, ongoing international efforts in the arena of digital libraries also has been discussed. Bangladesh Journal of Library and Information Science Vol.2(1) July 2012 pp.92-102DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjlis.v2i1.12926

scholarly journals Perceptions of usability and usefulness of digital libraries

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna K. Matusiak
Keyword(s):  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
User Intention ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Content Coverage ◽  
Visual Materials

This paper provides an overview of a case study research that investigated the use of Digital Library (DL) resources in two undergraduate classes and explored faculty and students' perceptions of educational digital libraries. This study found that students and faculty use academic DLs primarily for textual resources, but turn to the open Web for visual and multimedia resources. The study participants did not perceive academic libraries as a useful source of digital images and used search engines when searching for visual resources. The limited use of digital library resources for teaching and learning is associated with perceptions of usefulness and ease of use, especially if considered in a broader information landscape, in conjunction with other library information systems, and in the context of Web resources. The limited use of digital libraries is related to the following perceptions: 1) Library systems are not viewed as user-friendly, which in turn discourages potential users from trying DLs provided by academic libraries; 2) Academic libraries are perceived as places of primarily textual resources; perceptions of usefulness, especially in regard to relevance of content, coverage, and currency, seem to have a negative effect on user intention to use DLs, especially when searching for visual materials.

Loess Highway Tunnel Construction Process of Three Dimensional Numerical Simulation

2012 ◽  
Vol 256-259 ◽  
pp. 1276-1279
Author(s):  
Bai Liu ◽  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Jing Kong ◽  
Jian Pang
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Shanxi Province ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Western Region ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Loess Area ◽  
Highway Tunnel ◽  
Deformation Law

In recent years, as China's national sustained and rapid economic development, the state increased investment to middle-western region, promote the regional development of high grade highway. Therefore, highway tunnel through loess area is getting more and more. Due to the special physical properties of loess, it makes the loess tunnel construction a hot topic. To study on the deformation law of the loess highway tunnel, this paper based on the Shanxi Province Guang Ling to Hun Yuan highway tunnel—East Fu Yao tunnel, we simulate the whole section pre-reinforcement construction technique for three dimensional numerical, and combined with field monitoring measurement to compare and analyze in paper

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