Dear Library and Information Professionals Free E-Book on Digital Library Title: Digital Libraries Author: William Arms This book is my attempt to survey the entire field of digital libraries. Computers and networks are of fundamental importance, but they are only the technology. The real story of digital libraries is the interplay between people, organizations, and technology. How are libraries and publishers using this new technology? How are individuals bypassing traditional organizations and building their own libraries? Where is this all leading? The answer to the last question is simple. Nobody knows. I have tried to avoid speculation and to concentrate on describing current activities, trends, and research. Thus the heart of this book is a large number of examples described in panels. Each panel describes some significant aspect of digital libraries, technology, application, or research. Visit this Link for full text. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib Contants Preface 1 Background 2 The Internet and the World Wide Web 3 Libraries and publishers 4 Innovation and research 5 People, organizations, and change 6 Economic and legal issues 7 Access management and security 8 User interfaces and usability 9 Text 10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata 11 Distributed information discovery 12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata 13 Repositories and archives 14 Digital libraries and electronic publishing today Glossary Feel free to contact any time With Regards Sanjeev Kumar Jain Central Library Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur - 721 302 Email: sanjeevmlis@yahoo.co.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.