... Limited 2012 Technological change Technology infrastructure Academic libraries Information technology History This issue of Library Hi Tech offers a retrospective over the last 30 years of information technology as used in libraries and other memory institutions, particularly archives...

... glue and if somebody wanted that we could buy a bottle of it and pour it over his workstation. Digital libraries History Information retrieval Life must be understood backwards, but … it must be lived forward (Kierkegaard, 1843). Digital libraries have faced a series of difficulties...

... and it is already difficult to find good information about some of them. The article is not a full history of the period that is covered. Many important projects have been skipped. A more complete article would have additional examples from the commercial sector and would do more to place the American experience...

... books directly online, and faculty and graduate students could elect to have them delivered to their offices (Sloan, 1980). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Internet development in libraries The University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign Library Internet history Innovation...

... Limited 2012 Academic libraries Archives Digital preservation Infrastructure Digital storage Development United States of America History As an archivist who's been involved with the development of digital libraries and repositories over the last 15 years, I'm gratified to know...

...Elke Greifender; Melinda Van Wingen; Abigail Bass Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between historiography and archival practices. It takes the new social history approach to history as a case study for examining how historians' changing theories and methods may affect...

... source materials relating to Ohio's history. Practical implications This paper provides helpful advice to organizations considering digitizing their collections and details a model framework for statewide collaborative projects. Originality/value As more organizations establish digital libraries...

... to Texas History provides long‐term storage and access to digital copies of important original materials illuminating Texas's past. This paper describes the development of the Portal technology and content – presenting objectives, processes, and future plans – and defines the larger goal of facilitating...

... Initiative and a Photograph Description group that will be formed in 2004‐2005 to interpret the VRA Core standard for NC ECHO. Online oral histories have also surfaced with their own special needs for description and may necessitate a working group solution. In all working groups, members from partner...

...Ken Middleton; Ruth Ann Jones Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the planning and implementation of a project (The Making of Modern Michigan) which was undertaken to develop a digital collection on Michigan history and to provide training, equipment and technical resources needed...

... Australia Systems analysis Librarians Libraries History Information systems The title “systems librarian” has been used in Australian libraries since the mid‐1960s and is still used, though not widely, today. Initially the title had quite a specific meaning, but nowadays the interpretation...

...Ronald Jantz; Rudolph Bell The authors’ experiences in launching a new course at Rutgers University are described. The new honors course resulted from a collaboration between the History Department and Rutgers University Libraries (RUL), in which academic instruction, a unique source of digital...

...Mary Ross; Dan Marmion In an article published in the May 1997 issue of College and Research Libraries Merri Beth Lavagnino traced the history of the systems librarian and systems department in academic libraries. She identified four evolutionary stages, where Stage One was no automation...

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