...Lisa Lamont; Jordan Nielsen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss a social media campaign used to promote a digital library of archival resources. Design/methodology/approach – Librarians planned and executed a social media campaign using Tumblr and Pinterest and consulted...

... each library's small budget. Although this model was originally restricted to journals, its use has currently been extended to all types of formats including books, music and audiovisuals, etc. Libraries Collections management Digital libraries Digital storage Consortia Library consortia...

... Books Monographs Digital libraries In 1997 a conference entitled “The Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis: Or How Can I Get Tenure If You Won't Publish My Book?” was jointly sponsored by three large American academic societies and associations, including the Association of Research...

.... When tags are assigned as metadata for digital library projects, it is likely that they will be used in a traditional classification scheme utilizing a controlled vocabulary assigned by expert catalogers and best searched by expert users. However, the web consumes a lot of virtual real estate, and free...

... management Libraries Digital libraries Information services Change is the law of nature and, as is very apparent in the present library culture, libraries are not exempted from change. This paper is an account of rapid technological developments which are affecting almost every activity...

... are discussed. Plans are outlined for continued expansion of their image database and related programs, which will be funded by a second IMLS grant and other sources. Libraries Higher education Digital libraries Project management Employees Librarians In April 2000, Temple University Libraries...

...Sam Byrd; Glenn Courson; Elizabeth Roderick; Jean Marie Taylor Since 1995, the Library of Virginia’s Digital Library Program (DLP) has created digital images of more than 700,000 original document pages, 1,100 maps, 36,000 photographs, and 1.6 million catalog card images, and has created 32...