Title: Digital Libraries Support Distributed Education
Abstract: Many digital library discussions focus on computer processing and neglect the range of services that libraries traditionally provide. The digital library is not equivalent to a digitized collection with information management tools. It is also a series of activities that brings together collections, services, and people in support of the full life cycle of creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of information. A digital library should be a seamless extension of the library that provides faculty and students with access to information in any format that has been evaluated, organized, archived, and preserved. Access to evolving digital information is provided through global as well as personalized systems and through the services of information professionals. Digital libraries and traditional libraries should not be separate, but should coalesce to accomplish more than either can do independently to serve the user community on the highest order.
Publication Year: 1999
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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