Digital Libraries: Integrating Content and Systems

by Mark V. Dahl, Kyle Banerjee, Michael Spalti

Low cost Internet technology has transformed library services by allowing libraries to play a creative and dynamic role in the delivery of information to their users. This book helps managers, systems personnel, and graduate students understand the challenges of providing digital library services with a number disparate content providers and software systems. It also helps readers understand what libraries must do to deliver a user experience customized to the needs of individual institutions.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Sean Fishlock]

Outdated but still a useful overview of library technologies and relevant standards. Tends to cover the management rather than digital consumption of content, but understandable given the impact that mobile devices and BYOD have made since it was written.