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Direct linkHunter, Nancy Chaffin; Legg, Kathleen; Oehlerts, Beth – Library Quarterly, 2010
Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cooperation, Archives, Library Development
Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2008
This study examines the influence of culture on digital libraries of the first wave. The local cultures of innovation of five European national libraries (Biblioteca nacional de Portugal, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, the National Library of Scotland, and the British Library) are reconstructed in case histories from…
Descriptors: Innovation, Government Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Druin, Allison – Library Quarterly, 2005
At the University of Maryland, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from information studies, computer science, education, art, and psychology worked with seven children (ages seven to eleven) to design a new digital library for children. This partnership led to new approaches for collection development, cataloging (metadata standards), and…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Materials, Library Services, Children
Peer reviewedDilevko, Juris; Gottlieb, Lisa – Library Quarterly, 2003
Shows how a well-respected collection development tool contains ideological frames, using the "Public Library Catalog" (PLC) as an example. Evaluation by library science graduate students indicate that the PLC makes recommendations that have an imbalance of perspectives, overemphasize a particular facet or theory within a field, lack authority,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
Caidi, Nadia – Library Quarterly, 2004
This article presents case studies of the social shaping of the national union catalog (NUC) in seven countries (four in Central and Eastern Europe, two in the Baltic region, and South Africa). The purpose is to illustrate how technology developments do not occur independently of their social context but rather are co-constituted by the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catalogs, Library Materials, Technological Advancement
Moran, Barbara B. – Library Quarterly, 2005
Prior to 1997, the University of Oxford in Great Britain had approximately one hundred autonomous libraries with little coordination of services, collection development, or management among them. In that year a new director was hired with the mandate to integrate many of these libraries into one centralized system. Over the past seven years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Change Strategies, Organizational Change
