automated, electronic, digital, virtual

[Sloan, Bernie]

I looked at quite a few definitions a while back and
came to the conclusion that terms like "electronic
library", "digital library" and "virtual library" have been
used interchangeably by many people.

If you'd like to see some of the definitions I found, take
a look the "Defining the Digital Library" section of the
following paper:

http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sloan/e-ref.html

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant
University of Illinois Office for Planning & Budgeting
338 Henry Administration Building
506 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801
Phone: (217) 333-4895  
Fax: (217) 333-6355
Email: bernies at uillinois.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Aleksander Radwanski [SMTP:arl at win.oss.wroc.pl]
> Sent:	Monday, April 06, 1998 4:13 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	automated, electronic, digital, virtual
> 
> Dear Web4lib Members,
> 
> I have a question concerned terminology used in informaton technology.
> Last month in Poland we had a conference about electronic library.
> There were discussions about proper terminology. I think Polish terms
> should be correlated with appropriate terms in English. Could you be
> so kind and explain the terms given below and it's mutual relations: 
> - automated library 
> - electronic library 
> - digital library 
> - virtual library 
> Are they precisely defined?
> 
> I will deeply appreciate your assistance.
> Aleksander Radwanski
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> Ossolineum * Poland * http://www.oss.wroc.pl
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