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Ilesanmi, Titilayo Comfort – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2013
This article describes the roles of librarians in a research library, particularly in the digital era. Librarians' roles vary from the custodian of resources to providers of a diverse nature of activities ranging from collection development, organization of knowledge, information services, preservation and conservation, and management. Librarians…
Descriptors: Library Role, Librarians, Research Libraries, Foreign Countries
France, Fenella G.; Emery, Doug; Toth, Michael B. – Library Quarterly, 2010
Integrating advanced imaging and processing capabilities in libraries, archives, and museums requires effective systems and information management to ensure that the large amounts of digital data about cultural artifacts can be readily acquired, stored, archived, accessed, processed, and linked to other data. The Library of Congress is developing…
Descriptors: Information Management, Museums, Libraries, Information Technology

Bruer, John Michael – Microform and Imaging Review, 1998
Examines digital imaging and preservation (i.e., activities associated with maintaining library, archival, or museum materials for use, either in original physical form or in some other format); discusses problems and underlying causes associated with incorporating digital imaging as a preservation methodology; and lists questions to answer before…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Information Technology, Library Collections, Library Materials
Association of Research Libraries, 2007
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Librarian Teacher Cooperation, Library Services
Gallart, Nuria – 2000
This paper concentrates on the identification of the main trends that are visible from a librarian's perspective in the area of copyright management in the digital environment. The first section discusses the expansion of licensing, including reasons for this trend, standards for licenses, and collecting societies (i.e., societies that act on…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Information Technology
Nichols, Stephen G. – 2001
This paper discusses the preservation of digital resources in research libraries. The first section addresses the preservation imperative, including the challenges of quantity, stability of media, economics, and the contingent value of artifacts. The second section describes the artifact in question (i.e., an information resource in which the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Evaluation Criteria, Information Technology
Smith, Abby – EDUCAUSE Review, 2004
Recent innovations in information technology have met, and in many cases, exceeded all but the most utopian visions for increasing access to research materials. Although the costs of the technology are high and the risks of losing access to digital information in the future because of hardware and software obsolescence are now widely recognized,…
Descriptors: Preservation, Research Libraries, Librarians, Information Technology
Nichols, Stephen G.; Smith, Abby – 2001
This report discusses the ways in which artifacts and their physical frailties affect their research value--originality, faithfulness, fixity, and stability--over time and how libraries can minimize the risk of unacceptable loss of that value. It investigates the specific issues around selected media, such as paper-based printed matter, moving…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Audiovisual Aids, Higher Education, Information Technology
Barrett, Jaia, Ed. – Association of Research Libraries, 2004
ARL is the bimonthly report on research library issues and actions from ARL (Association of Research Libraries), CNI (Coalition of Networked Information), and SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). ARL reports on current issues of interest to academic and research library administrators, staff, and users; higher education…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Academic Libraries, Information Technology, Nonprofit Organizations
Poland, Jean – 2000
In a university environment, the library can benefit from interest in the digital future on the part of other concerned groups. Computer science departments are natural partners in the development of digital libraries. Professional societies, for-profit companies, and foundations are also potential sources of support. Cornell University Library…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Greenstein, Daniel; Ivey, Bill; Kenney, Anne R.; Lavoie, Brian; Smith, Abby – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) organized an invitational conference in May 2003 to examine the key factors shaping the information environment in which libraries operate and how these factors will affect stewardship of the cultural and intellectual resources vital to education and research. Scholars, library directors,…
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Information Management, Library Materials
Gandel, Paul B. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2005
Libraries have taken some major hits lately, again raising questions about how or whether libraries will survive a constantly shifting information landscape. The intrusion of the Web threatens to alter libraries in ways far different from those of past technological changes. Already the Web is affecting the very core areas of library services: (1)…
Descriptors: Libraries, Information Technology, Internet, Innovation
Rutimann, Hans – 1989
The International Project of the Commission on Preservation and Access was begun in June 1988 to explore the feasibility of creating an international database of preserved materials. Its main goals are to: (1) determine the extent to which preservation records exist in other countries; (2) identify the difficulties in converting records to…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Technology, International Cooperation
Hendley, A. M. – 1986
Recognizing that the fast-developing optical storage technologies provide a new dimension in publishing and information storage, retrieval, and distribution, this report examines the technical characteristics and capabilities of video and optical systems and the implications of this technology. The following aspects of optical disk systems are…
Descriptors: Databases, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
Bouche, Nicole – 1999
This paper reports on a project that involved the digitization of manuscripts from the Boswell Collection (i.e., personal papers of James Boswell) by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University (Connecticut). In this case, the digitization process was designed to serve a group of scholars already at work on a publication…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Archives, Higher Education