Digital Libraries

摘要

The implementation and maintenance of digital libraries, as well as theoretical reflection on key concepts and issues is of growing importance in the library and information sector. Digital Libraries, capturing contributions from a number of mostly French-speaking experts in the field under the editorship of Fabrice Papy, is therefore, a timely publication. The intention of the book seems to be to share information on opportunities and challenges faced by digital libraries and the innovative opportunities it may offer for both users and providers.rnApart from the preface, Digital Libraries, consists of 17 chapters covering the following: the role of librarians and information officers in digital libraries, reflection on the possibility of having a digital library without a librarian, the experiences and perspectives of the reader, university students' information strategies, digital libraries and democracy, accessing library catalogues, heuristic visualisation for the OPAC, 3D interaction for digital libraries, using facets to classify and access digital resources, publication of legal documents online, the availability of scholarly and pedagogic material online for use in French universities, the Revel@Nice Project (focusing on online periodicals and journals), evaluation of the use and users of digital journal libraries, the development and continuity of digital collections in libraries, ergonomic standards and the use of digital libraries, the description of a document information system within a university context, and the question of whether libraries have a future in Academia.