Thursday, November 19, 2009

Reading notes

no muddiest point.

The concept of creating separate digital libraries, from an institutional standpoint, makes a good deal of sense. But while a good deal of attention has been focused on creating interoperability between these distinct digital libraries there are some that feel, despite these efforts, that the approach is not in the users best interest. That has led people to consider the World Wide Web as a model for the future of digital libraries. Google books represents this model to a degree. They're goal seems to become the digital library for digital books. Users have embraced and become accustomed to this structure because of their web experiences. They do not care who has created or digitized the material/information they are looking for but only that the information is easily retrieved. So the question is do we move toward creating the digital library as opposed to organizational digital libraries.

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