Digital libraries (Topical Term)

Work cat.: 95-40028: The National Electronic Library, 1996.

95-159026: Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94, the first annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 1994: pp. 1-2 (Digital library, electronic library, virtual library all used as synonymous in paper, "does not seem clear in the literature if what is meant by the digital library is a series of ... collections or one ... collection") pp. 146-155 (discusses "Digital library design," primarily design of a retrieval system) pp. 156-162 (describes a "digital spatial library," or digital library of spatial or geographic info, which is really a cooperative network of creators of databases, repositories of databases, and -- separate -- catalogs of available databases, or "metadata") pp. 53-60 ("'digital library' as a generic name for dynamic, federated structures that provide intellectual and physical access to the growing ... networks of information encoded in multimedia digital formats." System described actually appears to be a retrieval interface and a set of "data repositories" which may be databases or may be sites where databases are kept -- the author is not clear) p. 163 (prevailing view is that digital libraries are archival collections of digital materials to be browsed and queried by information-seeking individuals)

LC database, 09/20/95.

MAG3 09/20/95: r "digital libraries".

The evolving virtual library, 1995.

WWW, Oct. 3, 2000 (electronic text collections; digital libraries)