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Love Börjeson; Chris Haffenden; Martin Malmsten; Fredrik Klingwall; Emma Rende; Robin Kurtz; Faton Rekathati; Hillevi Hägglöf; Justyna Sikora – College & Research Libraries, 2024
This article provides an account of the making of KBLab, the data lab at the National Library of Sweden (KB). The first part discusses the work involved in establishing a lab as both a physical and a digital site for researchers to use digital collections at previously unimaginable scales. The second part explains how the lab has deployed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Libraries, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks
Huang, Kuo Hung, Ed. – InTech, 2011
Digital library is commonly seen as a type of information retrieval system which stores and accesses digital content remotely via computer networks. However, the vision of digital libraries is not limited to technology or management, but user experience. This book is an attempt to share the practical experiences of solutions to the operation of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Publishing Industry, Electronic Libraries, Educational Resources
Sutherland, Michael; Clark, Jason – Computers in Libraries, 2009
Montana State University (MSU) Libraries (where the authors serve as web services librarian and digital initiatives librarian, respectively) is perhaps unique because it has no current periodicals room due to lack of space. As a result, finding current journals for research is difficult for its patrons, who do not always know how or where to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Computer Networks
Spitzer, Stephan; Brown, Stephen – Computers in Libraries, 2007
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, located on the National Naval Medical Center's campus in Bethesda, Maryland, is a medical education and research facility for the nation's military and public health community. In order to support its approximately 7,500 globally distributed users, the university's James A. Zimble Learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Educational Resources, Medical Education, Learning Resources Centers
Hill, Linda L.; Zheng, Qi – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1999
Describes the development by the Alexandria Digital Library of a gazetteer (dictionary of geographic names) composed of a Gazetteer Content Standard, a Feature Type Thesaurus, and an operational interactive gazetteer service. Illustrates the use of this tool in a georeferenced digital library and relates progress in working with Federal agencies…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer System Design, Electronic Libraries, Geographic Location
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Pisciotta, Henry; Halm, Michael J.; Dooris, Michael J. – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
This article draws on two projects funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation concerning the ways colleges and universities can support the legitimate sharing of digital learning resources for scholarly use. The 2001-03 Visual Image User Study (VIUS) assessed the scholarly needs of digital image users-faculty, staff, and students. That study led to…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Libraries, Computer Networks, Information Networks
Arms, William Y; And Others – EDUCOM Review, 1992
Describes the Mercury Electronic Library, a project at Carnegie Mellon University that involved development of software for an electronic library, implementation of the software by the university libraries, and stimulation of the market for electronic publishing. The library information system interface and databases and the computing system…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Networks, Computer Software, Computer Software Development
Maurer, Hermann, Ed.; Olson, Richard G., Ed. – 1998
This proceeding of the third WebNet conference--WebNet 98--addresses research, new developments, and experiences related to the Internet, intranets, and extranets. The 265 contributions of WebNet 98 presented in this volume consist of the full and short papers accepted for presentation at the conference from a collection of more than 600 submitted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Networks, Computer System Design