Digital Library:

• Digital v. Electronic v. Virtual Libraries
  Roy Tennant, former manager of the The escholarship Web & Services Design with Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE provides information regarding the wording differences of three similar, yet distinct types of libraries. The site gives good definitions and examples of characteristics of each library. The author, in good humor, chatises the reader, assuming they have very limited knowledge on these topics.

• What is a Digital Library? Definition, Content and Issues
  Professor Stephen P. Harter, School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University presented this paper at the International Conference on Digital Libraries and Information Services for the 21st Century in Seoul, Korea, 1996. In the paper he shares characteristics of a digital library, to those of a traditional library and problems digital libraries may encounter. Offers questions libraries need to ask themselves as they build digital libraries.

• What are Digital Libraries
  The Digital Library Federation (DLF) and their members crafted and agreed upon their definition of what are digital libraries. Agreeing on a common definition, allows the DLF to meet its goals and manage its members better. The option to review their definition and revise it is always available.

• As We May Think
  The University of Ottawa makes available the reproduction of Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think" artricle. This article was written in in July 1945, printed in the Atlanta Monthly. Bush encourages his readers to go beyond inventions that challenge you physically, but develop ones that can expand the mind and increase knowledge.

• Vannevar Bush
  This site offers an overview of the educational and professional career of Vannevar Bush. He is credited with the start of research using hypertext. He invented a Memex machine, which store information from books and other information sources, along with communication. It offers other links to resources about hypertext research.

• Alexandria Digital Project at UCSB
  This project is geared toward building a georeferenced digital library that can be used world wide. Research has involved: Digital Earth, Digital Learning, Digital Library Architecture, Evaluation, Knowledge of Organization Systems and Textual Geospatial Integration. In-depth research information is readily available.

• Carnegie Mellon University Digital Research Project
  This project focus is on Informedia technology research in the fields of education, health care, defense intelligence and the arrangement and knowledge of human functions. Informedia has worldwide digital libraries jointly in European and Asian countries, which offer multilingual, multi-cultural and cross-lingual produced versions. Informedia's goal is to attain machine understanding of video and film media.

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Initiatives
  The (NSF) encourages programs and projects that increase knowledge of science in order to move forward in the areas of national health, prosperity, and welfare; and to protect our national defense. The site has multiple links to digital library research information. If you are also interested in a research grant, you can learn how to apply.

• Stanford University Digital Library Research Project
  This digital library project started in July 1999. The research is needed to create and put in place the infrastructure and services warranted to jointly create, disseminate, share and manage information in a digital library setting. Documents, dissertations, research project information and more is accessible on this site.

• University of California at Berkley Digital Library Research Project
  The Digital Library Project is creating and designing tools and technologies to help better models of the "scholarly information life cycle." The focus of this research is to manage the change from the current centralized, discrete publishing model, to a distributed, on-going, and self-publishing model, while keeping the most important parts of the most recent model reviewed by peers.This site offers research information, along individual informations on those participating on this project.

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Digital Library Research Project
  Grainger Engineering Information Library Center is currently involved in ten research projects. Some of which are Open Archive Initiative Metadata in Science and Engineering, Illinois Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project, IMLS Digital Collections and Content and Proposed XML Schemas for Dublin Core Metadata. This research in geared toward the engineering fields.

• University of Michigan Digital Library Research Project
  This research is geared toward building an infrastructure that allows users (and publishers) to have the feel of working within a library, where the main concern is offering service and information organized in a traditional way, when the information and services are actually in constant change, with an uncentralized administration. It also includes building an interface to support this infrastructure. This is a challenging research project, helping digitial libraries to be organized within themselves.

• ACM Digital Library
  The ACM Digital Library is a broad collection of multiple citations, full text articles, newsletter articles and proceedings from conferences published in ACM journals. They offer personalized services for users. You can also set up your own personal bibliography page, using the ACM resources The frequently asked questions section will make your use of this library more enjoyable.

• Afghanistan Digital Library
  This collection strives to keep the Afghanistan's cultural heritage alive. Because of unrest in this country cultural information has been lost. The library consist of digitized written items, in particular (books) personal and public collection of those outside Afghanistan.

• American Memory
  American Memory opens up a world of important resource materials dealing with the history and culture of the United States of America. There are over 7 million digital items compiled in over 100 historical collections. It offers historical information of events that have happened each day of the year.

• Baruch College,CUNY
  This collections offers documents and images of school lectures in accounting, African-Native American exhibits and reaction to the 1970's Kent College shootings to name a few. This site makes conferences on video accessible. Also, the history of the school is available as part of its collection.

• The British Library
  The is the national library for the United Kingdom. It considers itself to be one of the worlds best libraries. It strives to make their collection accessible to everyone. Some of its collection consist of the Magna Carta, Lindisfarne Gospels, Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook, The Times first edition from 18 March 1788, Beatles manuscripts and the recording of Nelson Mandela's trial speech.

• Jacksonville University
  The majority of this collection are documents from Dr. Carita Doggett Corse. She was the director of the Florida Writers' Project during the 1930s and 1940s. Most documents and materials are from books published by these Florida writers. This collection will continue to grow, making available other materials from Dr. Corse's collection.

• Johnson Space Center Digital Images
  This collection makes available to the press over 9000 NASA photos. The photos include the American space program (manned), during the Mercury program up to the the Shuttle mission of the STS-79. This site offers full text and a simple browse search tool to locate photos.

• The New York Public Library
  This collection meets the library's traditional mission of offering "free and open access to the accumulated wisdom of the world" in the digital arena. The collection makes available one of a kind and hard to find materials. This collection will draw users of all ages.

• D-Lib Magazine
  D-Lib Magazine is an electronic publication only, with the main focus on research and development of digital libraries. It is published eleven times each year and is released on a monthly basis, with the exception of July and August issues. They are released together in July. All issues are available in full context at no charge on their website.

• Journal of the American Society of Information Science
  This journal offers new research in transfer of information, processes in communication, and recorded knowledge context. It offers full-text articles and cross referencing capabilities. This site makes available an acronym finder with more than 100,000 scientific, technical and medical acronyms explained.

• Journal of Digital Information
  JoDI was first published in April 1997. At that time it was one of a limited amount of electronic-only journals. Today it is still electronically based, not all papers are for print. It has over 35,000 users that have registered on their site.

• Library Journal
  Library Journal is an on-line electronic journal of Library Journal, the nations' oldest independent library publication , started in 1876. It is published 20 times a year and covers issues such as technology, public policy, management and other topics of interest to libraries. Most librarians consider the Library Journal as a must read.

• Challenges to building an Effective Digital Library
  The National Digital Library Program staff at the Library of Congress have targeted ten challenges they believe must be dealt with if large digital libraries are to be created effectively in the 21st century. With the exchange of ideas, large institutions such as the Library of Congress can help make policy on critical issues. They hope to find better solutions to building large digital libraries in hope of helping others.

• The Challenges in Designing Viable Digital Libraries
  The United States, with the advent of the information age is dealing with distribution and archiving information issues. How will we get a handle on saving and distributing information? Building digital libraries that can support the ever increasing amount of information and its exchange is neccessary.

• Challenges for Service Providers When Importing Metadata in Digital Libraries
  One of the important aspects of Digital libraries is its ability to offer services for data from distributed repositories. Several research projects are learning more about frameworks for interoperability to help solve this problem. This paper focuses on information gathered and learned by iLumina after importing IMS metadata.

• Digital Preservation:a time bomb for Digital Libraries
  Libraries and archives have long been in the forefront of preserving information. Over recent decades, several major libraries and archives have started formal preservation programs for traditional materials. Is digital preservation an alternative to traditional perservation tools?

• The development of digital libraries for blind and visually impaired people:
  The 2001 IFLA pre-conference SLB held in Washington, DC centered on Digital Libraries for the Blind and the Culture of Learning in the Information Age. This papers focuses on ways the development of the Internet and web-based technologies can be implemented to increase information opportunities for people who are blind and increase their realm of learning in the information age.

• Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries Joint NSF-EU DELOS Working Group Report
  Access to the Internet has resulted in digital libraries being used by people of different communities for multiple purposes. Gathering and sharing information has become an important part of our society. Personalizing digital libraries for its users is a viable option to libraries.