DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR DIGITAL DIVIDE AND ENVIRONMENT OF SCARCE ACCESS TO PRINTED MATERIALS: THE CASE OF UNIVERSITY JEAN PIAGET OF CAPE VERDE

摘要

With the failure of the traditional mechanisms of distributing bibliographic materials into developing countries, digitallibraries show up as a strong alternative in accomplishing such job, despite the challenges of the digital divide. This paperdiscusses the challenges of building a digital library (DL) in a developing country. The case of Cape Verde as a digitaldivide country is analyzed, in terms of current digital library usage and its potentiality for fighting the difficulties inaccessing bibliographic resources in the country. The paper also introduces an undergoing project of building a digitallibrary at the University Jean Piaget of Cape Verde.