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The Special Challenges for National Libraries
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Breeding, Marshall – Computers in Libraries, 2011
Managing a library collection at the national level follows quite a different set of assumptions than hold for typical academic or public libraries. These collections, often comprehensive of all materials published in a country, press the limits of scale in terms of the sizes of collections. A national library collection might, for example, stand…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Government Libraries, Public Libraries, Cultural Background
The "Long Tale": Using Web 2.0 Concepts to Enhance Digital Collections
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Bullen, Andrew – Computers in Libraries, 2008
The wonderful Web 2.0 is a famously slippery concept to define. The very ambiguity of the term is Escheresque, self-referential to its ever-changing meaning. As Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media, described it, "Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core." As Illinois State Library's…
Descriptors: Participation, Government Libraries, Information Technology, Internet