Professional Reading Shelf (4 Items) Digital Libraries
Source: Syllabus Full-Text, "Where Did All the Books Go?"
By Steven Epstein
-- Virtual Reference
Source: Computers in Libraries "We've Jumped on the Live reference Band Wagon and We Love the Ride!"
By Glenda Schaake & Eleanor Sathan
-- Scholarship
Source: CLIR Full-Text, New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive
Also available as pdf file. From the CLIR site, "In 2002, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, CLIR hosted a meeting of scholars, librarians, archivists, technologists, publishers, and funders to discuss the preservation of digital scholarly resources. The goal of the workshop was to identify the needs of various stakeholders�Web site creators; distributors and publishers of digital materials; representatives of archives, libraries, and repositories that want to collect these sites and make them available; end users; and anyone in the chain of scholarly communication who might want to discover and use these works for their own purposes�and to agree on common approaches to meeting those needs."
-- Access to Information
Source: Emerald Library Link Full-Text, "The Problem is Access, The Solution is Infrastructure"
By M.E. Gorman. The article also provides full-text access to "Friend, F.J. (2002) "Improving Access: Is There Any Hope?" from Interlending and Document Supply. Thanks to FOS News for the tip.
-- Publishing
Source: Educause Review Full-Text, "Librarians and Publishers as Collaborators and Competitors"
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