Handbook of research on digital libraries design, development, and impact /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Theng, Yin-Leng, 1961-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Digital libraries.; Collaborative systems; Digital libraries; Digital library development models; Digital preservation; DL implementation; E-learning and education; Identification and authentication; Information architecture; Information extraction; Information retrieval and techniques; Interaction issues and usability; Interoperability; Multilingual information retrieval; Multimedia digital libraries; Music information retrieval; Open source digital libraries; Systems architecture; Text mining techniques and applications
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxxix, 649 p. : ill., map) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 574-624) and index.
• ISBN: 9781599048802 (ebook); 1599048809 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

As digital libraries expand in their proliferation, and as researchers, students, and consumers increasingly depend on them for their information needs, developers are keen to learn more about the design, use, and usability of these systems. This handbook provides comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection of research articles from the expanding field of digital libraries.