...Karl Madden; Leili Seifi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a general review and historical context for digitization and interdisciplinary research involving digital surrogates of historical Persian manuscripts in the National Library and Archives of Iran and similarly engaged...

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... of SwissInfoDesk, the VRD of the Swiss National Library, launched in 2003. Design/methodology/approach After a short introduction on differences between virtual reference desks in North America and in Europe, the main approach is a focus on how SwissInfoDesk is built and developed, considering users' interests...

... 27,000,000 items, within which less than 50 per cent are patents and the reminder are other types of documents. Table I shows the number of items collected in some of the major databases of NISS. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Digital libraries National libraries Information...