...Ragnar Andreas Audunson; Ágnes Barátné Hajdu; Péter Kiszl; Katalin Bella Purpose This article aims to discuss the relevance of the concept of libraries as low-intensive meeting places, developed in the first years after the millennium, with regard to today’s digital restructuring of the public...

...Roswitha Skare Purpose The purpose of this study is to show that the neo-documentary – or complimentary – approach in Library and Information Science by no means is conservative, but highly necessary also in today's digitized media landscape. An example from a digitized photo archive is chosen...

...Zack Lischer-Katz Digital reformatting is defined here as the application of digitization techniques for preservation purposes in the context of information institutions. The term “preservation” is the conceptual foundation of a set of technologies, activities and discourses, and has been...

...David Mindel Purpose Digital collections are becoming more commonplace at libraries, archives and museums around the world, creating potential for improved accessibility to information that may otherwise remain hidden and further support for intellectual exploration. As a result of the growing...

...., 2008 ; Meyer et al., 2009). The first section of this review explores how mainstream accounts of the opposition between physical and digital texts are based on a narrow interpretation of information behaviour which prioritises reading over other forms of interaction. The second places...

... – This paper establishes arguments from a historical analysis of stages in the conceptual development of digital media and stages in the digitization of library functions. The historical approach leads to some discussions and forecasts of the future of research libraries. Findings – Digital media have...