Integrating electronic publications in the library - Managing the transition from print to digital

Roes, Hans

International Summer School on the Digital Library / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljis:8424)

Abstract:

Starting from a rather vague concept of integration as an evolutionary strategy, the emerging world of electronic resources is analyzed in relation to traditional library functions of selection, organisation and provision of information. Although electronic resources pose new problems to the library organisation, these problems are more practical than fundamental in nature. Libraries have adapted to new media throughout history and will continue to do so. In the short term the integration of new media calls for more integration between different departments within the library and between library and computer centre, in the long term new types of jobs might emerge to enable a more proactive approach to patrons' information needs and to filter the information provided to patrons. Catalogues and reference databases are a good tool to integrate the existing printed and emerging electronic information spaces. Products appearing on the market now which give access to electronic (versions of printed) journals cannot always easily be integrated with existing catalogues and reference databases

Creation: 1997
Keywords: Recursos electrónicos ; Bibliotecas digitales ; Bibliotecas universitarias ; Edición electrónica

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