Discusses the growing world of the digital library movement, describes a number of ongoing digital projects, and focuses on the Digital Library Federation (DLF), a consortium of libraries and agencies that are pioneering the use of electronic information technologies to extend collections and services. Topics include access to rare books;…

Describes an experiment where local as well as remote distributed information resources of the digital library collections of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Ghent library have been used as starting points for metadata reference links into other parts of the collections. Discusses global and local relevance. (LRW)

This paper discusses the collection of digital publications at Die Deutsche Bibliothek as part of its mandate as the central archival library and national bibliographic center of the Federal Republic of Germany to collect, archive, index, and provide public access to all German and German-language publications. The first section describes the…

Provides an overview of the basic components of a digital library. Highlights include library collections; metadata; services, including information seeking and retrieval, reference query fulfillment, and user training; user interaction with digital libraries, including searching, browsing, and navigation; economic support; maintenance;…