Digital Libraries Across Continents

Herausgeber: Yang, Le; Salaz, Alicia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Digital Libraries Across Continents illustrates how digital librarianship practitioners and scholars digitize, exhibit, and preserve their cultural heritage, and how these practices may be influenced by the policy, economic, and sociocultural environments in which they are developed.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Guides to Practice in Libraries, Archives and Information Science
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781032646084
• ISBN-10: 103264608X
• Artikelnr.: 73142690

Autorenporträt

Dr. Le Yang is the Associate Vice Provost & University Librarian for Collections, Discovery, and Digital Strategy at the University of Oregon Libraries. His research interests include digital librarianship, data governance, and open repositories. Dr. Alicia Salaz is the Vice Provost & University Librarian at the University of Oregon Libraries. She has researched in the areas of transnational library practice and how adults learn from reading in print or digital mediums in research with participant populations spanning the globe.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Introduction: The Evolution and Global Impact of Digital
Libraries; Chapter 1: The Bogotá Digital Library: A Transformative
Research-Creation Process to Design a Public Digital Library (2016-2020);
Chapter 2: Digital Libraries in Germany: Federalism, Funding, and the
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Chapter 3: Digital Libraries in China: From
"Digital" to "Smart"; Chapter 4: Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence to
Support Digital University Libraries in Africa: Opportunities and
Challenges; Chapter 5: Digital Libraries as a Powerful Concept for Storing
Anonymized Data; Chapter 6: The Use of AI Tools for Enhancing Digital
Library Services with Information Architects as Responsible Partners;
Chapter 7: Empowering Open: Building and Sustaining an OER Library
Repository; Chapter 8: Data Born in Literature: The Biodiversity Heritage
Library, a Global Digital Library Serving the Planet; Chapter 9: Navigating
Diverse Infrastructure, Multicultural and Multilingual Challenges in
International School K-12 Digital Libraries; Chapter 10: An Overview of
Digital Libraries in the Caribbean; Chapter 11: Digitized Collections and
Provenance Issues: Who Owns What?; Chapter 12: Precedented: Open Digital
Research Practices in Latin America; Conclusion: Digital Libraries and
Global Knowledge; Index.