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Buchanan, Steven; Gibb, Forbes; Simmons, Susan; McMenemy, David – Library Quarterly, 2012
Collaboration in the digital domain offers an opportunity to provide enhanced digital services and extended reach to the community. This article adopts a service-oriented perspective through which it considers environmental drivers for digital library collaboration; discusses emergent collaborative partnerships across UK educational institutions,…
Descriptors: Health Services, Architecture, Schools, Cooperation
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Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2009
This article presents the narrative accounts of the beginnings of digital library programs in five European national libraries: Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library. Based on interviews with policy makers and developers of digital…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Development, Government Libraries, Cultural Influences
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Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2008
This study examines the influence of culture on digital libraries of the first wave. The local cultures of innovation of five European national libraries (Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library) are reconstructed in case histories from…
Descriptors: Innovation, Government Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
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Dalton, Pete; McNicol, Sarah – Library Quarterly, 2004
Evaluation in Library and Information Services has traditionally focused on quantitative measures of input and output. This trend has been generally reflected in the emerging efforts relating to the evaluation of electronic information services (EIS). Less well developed are qualitative approaches to evaluation of EIS. Issues that feature high on…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Lifelong Learning, Evaluation Methods, Information Services
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Garrett, Jeffrey – Library Quarterly, 2004
Library home pages and digital library sites have many properties and purposes in common with the Baroque wall-system libraries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Like their Baroque antecedents, contemporary library Web sites exploit the moment of entrance and the experience of the threshold to create and sustain the illusion of a…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Equipment, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries