Diaital Libraries and Repositories

摘要

1. how to deal with the enormous archive of previously published works now in print; 2. continued deployment of a global information technology infrastructure; 3. development of tools in support of networked information retrieval; 4. dealing with copyright issues; 5. adherence to and development of standards for interoperability (Kochtanek, 2002). A more detailed summary of the issues on digital libraries is also to be found in Greenstein and Thorin's short monograph, which examines three stages of digital library growth and includes six case studies (Greenstein and Thorin, 2002). In the third stage the authors argue that this concept 'the adult digital library' is only in theoretical existence at the moment They predict however, that it will no longer be functionally or organizationally distinct from the library and that financial resources to maintain it will come from a number of budget lines rather than a single one.