Virtual Libraries

[Laura A Schmitt]

Philip,

I am surprised you are having difficulty finding information supporting
development virtual libraries, given the interesting work that is going on
in the area.  In fact, it is possible that your best sources for your
research would be on the web.  Here are a couple of sites that might offer
you some pertinent information for your paper: 

http://lcweb.loc.gov/loc/ndlf/digital.html (Digital library resources and 
projects from the Library of Congress)

http://alexandria.sdc.ucsb.edu/public-documents/bibliography (Alexandria 
Digital Library bibliography, with a list of citations pertaining to 
digital libraries)

http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ktrgovac/digital/digital.html (Digital 
Libraries Resource page)

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~woernerc/digital.html (another Digital 
Libraries Resource page)

I find that searching Infoseek under 'virtual library' didn't yield the 
rich information I found when I searched under 'digital library.'

Good luck,
Laura Schmitt
las at laser.net 
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On 6/18/97 Philip Proper <proper <proper at ibm.net> wrote
> 
> I am a undergraduate student that has decided to write a paper on the
> prospects of virtual libraries in the future. While I have found plenty
> of sources that express the opinion that an all electronic library is
> undesirable and not feasible, I can not seem to find proponents.
> I am currently reading Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality by
> Walt Crawford and Michael Gorman; and they make frequent references to
> futurists and technojunkies that favor the all electronic library. I
> would like to investigate the opinions of these futurists but I don't
> who they are. I would appreciate it if anyone has any suggestions where
> I can find pro-virtual library opinions, particularly online sources as
> I only have a week to complete the paper. Thanks for helping a student
> and future librarian.
> 
> Philip Proper
> proper at ibm.net
>