The emerging trends in digital(ized) collection development from 1997 are examined using a sample of projects accessible through web-based registries of the Association of Research Libraries and Digital Library Federation. The analysis focuses on thematic repertoire, narrative structuring, underlying historiographic principles, presentation, and the context of institutionalization combining empirical and interpretive approaches, to understand how digital libraries are involved in the production of knowledge and how memory institutions are currently shaping this record in the digital environment. Digital collections are presently showcasing material so far restricted to scholarly uses, making it available for broader educational purposes. Nevertheless, they resemble the sixteenth- and the seventeenth-century cabinets of curiosities in their limited ability to support scholarship or address information needs of defined communities of users. Programmatic statements for developers in conclusion of the study suggest ways for improving the usability of these emerging textual environments, while recognizing new uses for the collections.

This annotated bibliography was commissioned to support the NSDL Evaluation Workshop (planned for October 2003) that will 1) explore the issues around evaluating the impact of digital libraries on education and that will 2) begin developing a strategy to evaluate the impact of the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) on STEM education. The bibliographyâ s purpose, then, is to identify research to date on evaluating the impact of digital libraries on learning and teaching. It contains a Summary & Analysis section, which defines terms, makes observations about the literature, reviews the resources included, highlights issues, and suggests areas for further consideration. The Annotated Bibliography is organized alphabetically. Details about each resource include: a citation; the abstract provided with each resource; a summary, if necessary, to highlight relevant ideas not expressed in the abstract; and, a comment section with a short analysis of the resource. The annotations are followed by a description of the Methodology used to compile this document.

This is a presentation (36 slides) at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting session on Collaboration in Digital Libraries: Luminous Ideas from Health Informatics, Academic Libraries, and Historical Archives.

Open source digital library packages are gaining popularity nowadays. To build a digital library under economical conditions open source software is preferable. This paper tries to identify the extent of adoption of open source digital library software packages in various organizations through an online survey. It lays down the findings from the survey.

The digital library is a user-based library service that seamlessly connects users to the information they need electronically, regardless of source. The new technologies and higher costs cause management new difficulties in five areas: planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. The purpose of this report is to collect these problems from the literature and offer solutions when possible. The three largest problems facing the manager of digital library services are cost recovery, copyright issues, and training. Mangers must determine a way to recover the constant costs incurred by the technologies used to run the digital library through increased funding or charging users. Until copyright issues are dealt with, no copywritten material can be placed in a digital library. Constant training requires a commitment of money and time, yet is the most important change a manager can make to guarantee the success of the digital library. These issues must not be avoided, and require managers to re-think traditional management strategies. In order to handle these and other problems and successfully manage a digital library, managers require new tools for a new technology.

Citation for the accompanying article: Dalbello, Marija. (2005). "A Phenomenological Study of an Emergent National Digital Library, Part I: Theory and Methodological Framework," The Library Quarterly 75 (4), pp. 391-420. / This article discusses digital library development at the Library of Congress focusing on institutional processes associated with technological innovation in the library context and key transformative event, the completion of the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) (1995-2000). Interviews with seven key participants of the program conducted in 2002 at the Library of Congress (from policy-makers to digital library developers) are interpreted here in terms of loci of control (external/internal) shaping the process of innovation and its institutionalization â the coercive and normative pressures of society, and the professional field of librarianship. The perceptions of individuals are synthesized into a realist narrative in which their voices are still recognizable. Their tales of development show that organizational change driven by external forces and involving individuals who crossed boundaries of organizational fields can be very successful in forcing organizational isomorphism and integration of digitization in the library processes. The accompanying article, Part I, presents theories of social change and organizational rationality, and the social construction of technology (SCOT) as well as the methodological framework for this phenomenological study.

Digital revolution has transformed the intellectual function of traditional libraries and Information System managers have to play a significant role in managing internal and external knowledge resources and make it available to scientists, scholars,educators or the rural poor. In this article author discusses the concept of Knowledge Management in digital libraries and need for advanced personalisation and customization of information. The additional skills required in managing information in digital environment and especially the role of a chief knowledge officer are elaborated.

In Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge, the Committee offers its findings and recommendations for how digital libraries can be an essential resource for human learning and development. The PITAC offers four key recommendations that will make digital libraries more pervasive and usable by all citizens: *Expanded research in metadata and metadata use, scalability, interoperability, archival storage and preservation, intellectual property rights, privacy and security, and human use *Create several Federally funded large-scale digital library testbeds *Provide Federal funding to make all public Federal content persistently available in digital form on the Internet *Have the Federal government play a leadership role in evolving policy to fairly address intellectual property rights in the digital age

This paper finds that the variations of authors' names have negatively affected the retrieval capability of digital repositories. Two possible solutions include using composite identifiers that combine author name, publication date, and author affiliation, and also asking authors to input the variants of their name, if any, at the time of depositing articles.

At the NSDL AM 2004, the SIG titled What's in the NSDL Metadata Repository? The Technical, Cataloging, and Evaluations Challenges at the NSDL All Projects Meeting brings together technical, cataloging, and evaluation experts to identify methods to determine the breadth and depth of the metadata repository. During this session we will develop a plan to characterize the contents of the NSDL Metadata Repository in terms of subject, audience, and type. Three position papers are presented as a prelude to the plan. They include: #1: Title: Report of the NSDL Evaluations Controlled Vocabulary Project Date: 10/1/2004 Committee Members Boots Cassel cassel@acm.org Casey Jones caseyj@ucar.edu Mimi Recker mimi.recker@usu.edu Judy Ridgway Jridgway@enc.org (Working Group Chair) Tammy Sumner sumner@Colorado.EDU # 2: Title: Metadata Elements in the NSDL Metadata Repository: Results of a Preliminary Quality Analysis: Subject, Type, Audience Authors: Gregory M. Shreve, Marcia Lei Zeng, Bhagirathi Subrahmanyam # 3: Title: Towards Making the NSDL Collection More Accessible Through a Testbed Author: Peter Shin, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD