| Description |
xxxii, 415 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
From "boutique" to mass digitalization : the Google Library Project at Oxford / Ronald Milne -- Digital services in academic libraries : the Internet is setting benchmarks / Norbert Lossau -- Early years of the United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET) / Mike Wells -- World-class universities need world-class libraries and information resources : but how can they be provided? / Brian K. Follett -- International dimensions of digital science and scholarship : aspirations of the British Library in serving the international scientific and scholarly communities / Lynne Brindley -- CURL-- research libraries in the British Isles / Peter Fox -- For better or worse : change and development in academic libraries, 1970-2006 / Bill Simpson -- Combining the best of both worlds : the hybrid library / David Baker -- Beyond the hybrid library : libraries in a Web 2.0 world / Derek Law -- Libraries and open access : the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions / Stephen Pinfield -- Scholarship and libraries : collectors and collections / Fred Ratcliffe -- When is a librarian not a librarian? / Frederick Friend -- From integration to web archiving / John Tuck -- Not just a box of books : from repository to service innovator / Sarah E. Thomas and Carl A. Kroch -- Learning enhancement through strategic project partnership / Mary Heaney -- Libraries for the 21st century / Les Watson -- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : poor players on the digital curation stage / Chris Rusbridge -- Some key issues in digital preservation / Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner -- From the information age to the intelligence age : exploiting IT and convergence / Rae Earnshaw and John Vince -- Cognitive implications of information spaces : human issues in the design and use of electronic library interfaces / Sherry Chen ... [et al.] -- Mobile media-- from content to user / Antonietta Iacono and Gareth Frith -- Special collections librarianship / Richard Ovenden -- Defending research and scholarship-- United Kingdom libraries and the Terrorism Bill 2005 / Clive D. Field -- Politics, profits and idealism : John Norton, the Stationers' Company and Sir Thomas Bodley / John Barnard -- William Drummond of Hawthornden : book collector and benefactor of Edinburgh University Library / John Hall -- de Gaulle and the British / David Dilks -- Great libraries in the service of science / Alan Eyre -- Governance at Harvard University Library / Dudley Fishburn -- Higher education libraries and the quality agenda / John Horton |
| Notes |
"Festschrift in honour of Dr Reg Carr" - back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Digital libraries.
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Libraries -- Data processing.
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| Author |
Earnshaw, Rae A., 1944-
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Vince, John (John A.)
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| LC no. |
2007933087 |
| ISBN |
1846289025 |
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1846289033 (ebk.) |
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9781846289026 |
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9781846289033 (ebk.) |
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