New Publication, The Digital Library: A Biography

[gary]

Online today. 
News of a new publication from the DLF and CLIR. 

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The Digital Library: A Biography 

>From the announcement, "Digital libraries, once project based and largely 
autonomous efforts, are maturing. As individual programs have grown, each has 
developed its own personality, reflecting the circumstances of its creation and 
environment, and its leadership. A new report from the Council on Library and 
Information Resources (CLIR) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) draws on 
the results of a survey and case studies of DLF members to reveal how these 
influences have molded a range of organizational forms that we call the digital 
library. 

The report, entitled The Digital Library: A Biography, is written by Daniel 
Greenstein and Suzanne Thorin. Greenstein, formerly the director of the DLF, is 
now university librarian for systemwide library planning and scholarly 
information and director of the California Digital Library. Thorin is the dean of 
university libraries at Indiana University. 
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Section one of the report examines three stages of digital library growth: the 
young digital library, the maturing digital library, and the adult digital 
library...Section two of the report presents case studies of digital library 
development at six institutions. These case studies reveal other attributes that 
have helped shape the character of digital library programs. They include a 
program's orientation toward the production of digital content, organization and 
leadership, and relationship with surrounding academic departments and 
information services. 

Full-Text of Announcement at: 
http://www.clir.org/pubs/press/2002_pub109_pr.html 

Full-Text of Report (76 pages) at: 
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub109/pub109.pdf 



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gary 

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