IRLS 588 792 Issues in Information Resources: Digital Libraries
Instructor : Peter Botticelli
Course Objectives :
(a) Introduce you to the digital library community and familiarize you with some of the key policy issues affecting digital collections today.
(b) Help you become skilled library technology consumers and digital collections practitioners.
Notes on Readings :
All assigned readings for this course are either freely available on the Web or can be accessed in electronic versions through the University of Arizona Library.
Also, the readings for each unit below are designed to be read in conjunction with the discussion notes that will be posted each week. Thus, you will not be expected to read and absorb all of the information in advance. Rather, as we advance through the semester, I will guide you through particular sections of each reading and ask you to focus on answering specific questions drawn from the material.
1. Introduction: Understanding Digital Libraries
Topics : (a) Introducing some key issues regarding digital libraries we will explore in this course.
(b) Methods you can use in analyzing digital libraries.
Readings :
Christine Borgman. Whither, or Wither, Libraries? In Christine Borgman, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT, 2000), pp. 169-208.
NetLibrary—access through UA Library
Greenstein, Daniel and Suzanne E. Thorin. The Digital Library: A Biography.
CLIR Report 109 (Sep. 2002).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub109 /contents.html
Michael Keller, Victoria Reich, Andrew Herkovic. What is a Library Anymore, Anyway?
First Monday 8(5) May 2003.
firstmonday.org/issues/issue8 _5/keller/index.html
2. Digital Collections: Libraries
Topics : (a) Examining digital collections created and maintained by libraries.
(b) Introduce some collection development issues facing digital librarians.
Readings :
Hur-Li Lee. What is a Collection? JASIST 51(12) 2000: 1106-1113.
EBSCO—lib. access only
Lorcan Dempsey. Libraries and the Long Tail. D-Lib Magazine (April 2006). www.dlib.org/dlib/april06 /dempsey/04dempsey.html
Martha L. Brogan. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature.
CLIR Report 132 (Sep. 2005).
www.diglib.org/pubs/brogan0505
Diane M. Zorich. A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns.
CLIR Report 118 (Jun. 2003).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub118 /contents.html
3. Digital Collections: E-journals
Topic : The organizational, economic and usage implications of e-journals for libraries.
Readings :
Carol Tenopir. Online S cholarly Journals: How Many? Library Journal (Feb. 2004). libraryjournal.com/article /CA374956
Linda Eells. For Better or for Worse: The Joys and Woes of E-Journals.
Science and Technology Libraries 25(1/2) 2004: 33-53.
Haworth Press—lib. access only
Karla Hahn. The State of the Large Publisher Bundle. ARL Bimonthly Report 245 (April 2006). www.arl.org/newsltr/245/bundle .html
Roger C. Schonfeld, Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, Eileen Gifford Fenton. The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats.
CLIR Report 127 (June 2004).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub127 /contents.html
Donald King, Carol Tenopir, Carol Hansen Montgomery and Sarah Aerni. Patterns of Journal Use by Faculty at Three Diverse Universities. D-Lib Magazine (Oct. 2003). www.dlib.org/dlib/october03 /king/10king.html
Anne Kenney. Surveying the E-journal Preservation Landscape. ARL Bimonthly Report 245 (April 2006).
www.arl.org/newsltr/245 /preserv.html
4. Digital Collections: The Web as an Information Resource
Topics : (a) The Web as incubator of new types of information resources:
e-books, grey literature, streaming multimedia
(b) The challenge to libraries posed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN (the “big three of search”).
(c) The evolving role of libraries in education and research.
Readings :
OCLC. Information Format Trends: Content, Not Containers (2004).
www.oclc.org/reports/2004format .htm
Cisler, Steve. Letter from San Francisco: The Internet Bookmobile. First Monday 7(10) Oct. 2002. firstmonday.org/issues/issue7 _10/cisler/index.html
Carol Tenopir. Is Google the Competition? Library Journal 129(6) 2004: 30.
EBSCO—lib. access only
Wade Roush. The Infinite Library: Does Google's plan to digitize millions of print books spell the death of libraries; or their rebirth? Technology Review (May 2005). www.technologyreview.com/read _article.aspx?ch=infotech&sc= &id=14408&pg=1
Norbert Lossau. Search Engine Technology and Digital Libraries: Libraries Need to Discover the Academic Internet. D-Lib Magazine (Jun. 2004).
www.dlib.org/dlib/june04 /lossau/06lossau.html
Carol Tenopir, Donald King, Peter Boyce, Matt Grayson, Yan Zhang, Mercy Ebuen.
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases. D-Lib Magazine (May 2003). www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/king /05king.html
Richard E. Luce. E-prints Intersect the Digital Library: Inside the Los Alamos arXiv.
Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Winter 2001).
www.istl.org/01-winter/article3 .html
5. Creating Digital Collections
Topics : (a) Introduction to the technical process of digitizing print materials.
(b) Selection issues in building digital collections.
(c) Policies to ensure the sustainability of new digital collections.
Readings :
Cornell Library. Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial. www.library.cornell.edu /preservation/tutorial
Abby Smith. Strategies for Building Digitized Collections. CLIR Report 101 (Sep. 2001). clir.org/pubs/reports/pub101 /contents.html
Timothy Jewell. Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources.
CLIR Report 99 (July 2001).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub99 /contents.html
Louis Pitschmann. Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources.
CLIR Report 98 (Jun. 2001).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub98 /contents.html
NISO Framework Advisory Group. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2nd edition. Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization, 2004. www.niso.org/framework/Framewor k2.html
Abby Smith. Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums.
CLIR Report 100 (Aug. 2001).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub100 /contents.html
6. Understanding Digital Library Technologies
Topics :
(a) We will examine the Greenstone digital library software.
(b) We will explore strategies librarians can use to be effective technology consumers while also participating in the development of new technologies.
Readings :
Ian Witten, David Bainbridge, Stefan Boddie. Greenstone: Open-source Digital Library Software with End-user Collection Building. Online Information Review 25(5) 2001: 288-298.
Emerald—lib. access only
Ian H. Witten and David Bainbridge. How to Build a Digital Library (Elsevier, 2003).
NetLibrary—access through UA Library
William Arms. Digital Libraries (MIT, 2000).
7. Metadata : Describing Digital Resources
Topic : Issues in the description of particular digital resources.
Readings :
Tony Gill, Anne Gilliland, Mary Woodley. Introduction to Metadata, Online Edition 2.1.
Getty Research Institute. www.getty.edu/research/conducti ng_research/standards/intrometa data/index.html
ISO. Understanding Metadata (2004).
www.niso.org/standards/resource s/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf
Marcum, Deanna. The Future of Cataloging (2005).
loc.gov/library/reports /CatalogingSpeech.pdf
Erik Duval, Wayne Hodgins, Stuart Sutton, Stuart Weibel. Metadata Principles and Practicalities.
D-Lib Magazine (April 2002).
www.dlib.org/dlib/april02 /weibel/04weibel.html
8. Metadata: Making Digital Resources Accessible
Topic : How metadata can promote interoperability between digital library systems and collections.
Readings :
Besser, Howard. The Next Stage: Moving from Isolated Digital Collections to Interoperable Digital Libraries. First Monday 7(6) June 2002.
firstmonday.org/issues/issue7 _6/besser/index.html
Clifford A. Lynch. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative.
ARL Bimonthly Report 217 (August 2001).
Caroline Arms. Available and Useful: OAI and the Library of Congress.
Library Hi Tech 21(3) 2003: 129-139.
rs6.loc.gov/ammem/techdocs /libht2003.html
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila. The Semantic Web. Scientific American (May 2001). www.sciam.com/article.cfm ?articleID=00048144-10D2-1C70 -84A9809EC588EF21
9. The User Experience in Digital Libraries
Topics : (a) How digital libraries can be designed for greater usability.
(b) Reference services in digital libraries.
Readings :
Christine Borgman. Why Are Digital Libraries Hard to Use? In Christine Borgman, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure (MIT, 2000), pp. 117-142.
NetLibrary—access through UA Library
Carol Tenopir. Use and Users of Electronic Library Resources: An Overview and Analysis of Recent Research Studies. CLIR Report 120 (Aug. 2003).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub120 /contents.html
Judy Jeng. What is Usability in the Context of the Digital Library and How Can It Be Measured? Information Technology and Libraries 24(2) 2005: 47-56.
EBSCO—lib. access only
Johan Bollen and Rick Luce. Evaluation of Digital Library Impact and User Communities by Analysis of Usage Patterns. D-Lib Magazine (June 2002).
dlib.org/dlib/june02/bollen /06bollen.html
Jeffrey Penka. The Technological Challenges of Digital Reference. D-Lib Magazine (Feb. 2003). www.dlib.org/dlib/february03 /penka/02penka.html
Anne Kenney, Nancy McGovern, Ida Martinez, and Lance Heidig. Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers. D-Lib Magazine (June 2003). www.dlib.org/dlib/june03 /06contents.html
10. Preserving Digital Resources
Topic : Introduction to the ongoing research and policy issues in digital preservation.
Readings :
Cornell Library. Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-Term Strategies for Long Term Problems (2003).
www.library.cornell.edu/iris /tutorial/dpm/eng_index.html
CLIR. Access in the Future Tense. CLIR Report 126 (2004).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub126 /contents.html
NSF. Wave of the Future: NSF Post Digital Library Futures Workshop (June 2003). www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop /papers.html
NSF. Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries (June 2003).
www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop /report.pdf
Brian Lavoie, Lorcan Dempsey. Thirteen Ways of Looking at...Digital Preservation.
D-Lib Magazine (Jul./Aug. 2004).
www.dlib.org/dlib/july04 /lavoie/07lavoie.html
Margaret M. Byrnes. Permanence Levels and the Archives for NLM's Permanent Web Documents.
ARL Bimonthly Report 241 (Aug. 2005).
arl.org/newsltr/241/permweb .html
Maggie Jones, Neil Beagrie. Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook (first published 2001—currently updated and published online by the Digital Preservation Coalition). www.dpconline.org/graphics /handbook/index.html
National Library of Australia. Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage (UNESCO, 2003)., unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013 /001300/130071e.pdf
11. Organizing Digital Libraries
Topics : (a) Strategic management issues facing digital libraries today.
(b) Efforts by libraries to build large-scale digital repositories.
(c) Examples of repositories: DSpace, ARTstor
Readings :
Wendy Lougee. Diffuse Libraries: Emergent Roles for the Research Library in the Digital Age.
CLIR Report 108 (Aug. 2002).
clir.org/pubs/reports/pub108 /contents.html
Donald J. Waters. Managing Digital Assets in Higher Education: An Overview of Strategic Issues.
ARL Bimonthly Report 244 (Feb. 2006).
www.arl.org/newsltr/244/assets .html
David Seaman. Deep Sharing: A Case for the Federated Digital Library. EDUCAUSE Review 38(4), 2003.
www.educause.edu/ir/library /pdf/erm0348.pdf
Clifford Lynch. Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age.
ARL Bimonthly Report 226 (Feb. 2003).
www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html
Thomas Peters. Digital Repositories: Individual, Discipline-based, Institutional, Consortial, or National? Journal of Academic Librarianship 28(6) Nov. 2002.
EBSCO—lib. access only
Thomas Peters. Consortia and their Discontents. Journal of Academic Librarianship 29(2) Mar. 2003. EBSCO—lib. access only
Mary R. Barton and Julie Harford Walker. Building a Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries' Digital Institutional Repository. Journal of Digital Information 4(2) 2003. jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v04/i02 /Barton/barton-final.pdf
Barbara Rockenbach and Max Marmor. ARTstor's Digital Landscape. Library Journal (15 July 2005). www.libraryjournal.com/article /CA623002.html
12. Copyright Issues for Digital Libraries
Topic : Copyright problems in creating and providing access to digital collections.
Readings :
Peter Hirtle. Digital Preservation and Copyright. fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary _and_analysis/2003_11_hirtle .html
June Besek. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive. CLIR Report 112 (Jan. 2003). clir.org/pubs/reports/pub112 /contents.html
Karen Coyle. Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements. Ariadne 40 (July 2004). ariadne.ac.uk/issue40/coyle
Denise Troll Covey. Acquiring Copyright Permission To Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books.
CLIR Report 134 (Oct. 2005).
www.diglib.org/pubs/trollcovey0 509
13. Conclusions
Topic : (a) How the digital library community has advanced in the past decade.
(b) Current plans for existing and new collections and services.
(c) Technology forecasting: how to spot and plan for disruptive technologies.
Readings :
Lorcan Dempsey. The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After. Ariadne 46 (Feb. 2006). ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/dempsey
Clifford A. Lynch. Where Do We Go from Here? The Next Decade in Digital Libraries.
D-Lib Magazine , 11:7/8 (July/August 2005).
www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch /07lynch.html
Paul Miller. Web 2.0: Building the New Library. Ariadne 45 (Oct. 2005).
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