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Digital libraries

Here are entered works on collections of resources in digital formats. Works on collections of discrete items of related data that can be accessed individually, in combination, or as a whole are entered under Data sets.

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• Libraries

• Information storage and retrieval systems

• Digital libraries -- Access control
• Digital libraries -- Africa
• Digital libraries -- Bibliography
• Digital libraries -- Collection development
• Digital libraries -- Congresses
• Digital libraries -- Conservation and restoration
• Digital libraries -- Economic aspects
• Digital libraries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Digital libraries -- Management
• Digital libraries -- Periodicals
• Digital libraries -- Planning
• Digital libraries -- United States
• Humanities -- Digital libraries
• Institutional repositories

• Digital curation
• Digital media collections
• Digital media libraries
• Digital repositories
• Electronic libraries
• Electronic publication collections
• Electronic publication libraries
• Electronic text collections
• Repositories, Digital
• Virtual libraries
• Digital library

• Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (2008), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert (PDF with commentary at educopia.org)
• Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library (2006), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• Managing the Digital Library (New York: Reed Press, c2004), ed. by Roy Tennant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services (2003), by Martha L. Brogan (PDF and HTML at diglib.org)
• How to Develop a Data Management and Sharing Plan (Edinburgh: Digital Curation Centre, 2011), by Sarah Jones (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011), by Alison Babeau (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Open Access and Libraries: Essays from Cites and Insights, 2001-2009 (c2010), by Walt Crawford (PDF at waltcrawford.name)
• Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• Digital Libraries: A Vision for the 21st Century: A Festschrift in Honor of Wendy Lougee on the Occasion of Her Departure From the University of Michigan, ed. by Patricia Hodges, Mark Sandler, Maria Bonn, and W. John Price-Wilkin (HTML at Michigan)

• Accessibility and Integrity of Networked Information Collections (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, contrib. by Clifford A. Lynch (PDF files at Princeton)

• Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), ed. by Daniela Merolla and Mark Turin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (current and archived versions, 2010-2011), by Charles W. Bailey (HTML with commentary at digital-scholarship.com)
• Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, by Charles W. Bailey (HTML at digital-scholarship.org)

• Institutional Repository Bibliography (current and archived versions, 2009-2010), by Charles W. Bailey (HTML with commentary at digital-scholarship.com)

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (third edition, 2007), by National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at niso.org)

• Successes and Failures of Digital Libraries (Urbana-Champaign: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000), ed. by Susan Harum and Michael Twidale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The State of Digital Preservation: An International Perspective (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2002) (PDF at clir.org)
• Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries, June 15-17, 2003 (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)
• Digital Libraries '95, by Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (HTML at TAMU)
• Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94, by Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (HTML at TAMU)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• Economics and Usage of Digital Libraries: Byting the Bullet (2008), ed. by Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Wendy Pradt Lougee (HTML at Michigan)

• The Digital Library Tool Kit (third edition, 2003), by Peter L. Noerr (PDF at sun.com)

• The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation (prepublication draft, 2017), by Trevor Owens (PDF with commentary at LISSA)
• The Digital Library Tool Kit (third edition, 2003), by Peter L. Noerr (PDF at sun.com)
• Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (CLIR publication #160; c2013), by Council on Library and Information Resources (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Research Data Management: Principles, Practices, and Prospects (CLIR publication #160; c2013), by Council on Library and Information Resources (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• SCIRES-IT: Scientific Research and Information Technology (in Italian and English; 2011-) (full serial archives)
• D-Lib Magazine (1995-2017) (full serial archives)
• High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine (2000-2006) (full serial archives)
• Biomedical Digital Libraries (full serial archives)
• CLIR Issues (full serial archives)
• Ariadne (full serial archives)

• The Digital Library Tool Kit (third edition, 2003), by Peter L. Noerr (PDF at sun.com)

• LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress (2000), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files (2000), by Gail M. Hodge (PDF at clir.org)
• Digital Libraries (electronic edition; originally published 2000), by William Y. Arms (HTML with commentary at Cornell)
• TULIP: Final Report (1997), ed. by Karen Hunter (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Making Institutional Repositories Work (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, and Andrew Wesolek (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

• Census of Institutional Repositories in the United States: MIRACLE Project Research Findings (2007), by Karen Markey, Soo Young Rieh, Beth St. Jean, Jihyun Kim, and Elizabeth Yakel (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by John W. White and Heather Gilbert
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • PDF with commentary at Purdue
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
• "Rome Wasn't Digitized in a Day": Building a Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Classicists (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2011), by Alison Babeau (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2023), ed. by Josh C. Cromwell (PDF at ala.org)
• Making Institutional Repositories Work (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2016), ed. by Burton B. Callicott, David Scherer, and Andrew Wesolek (PDF with commentary at Purdue)

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