Designing and Managing Your Digital Library.

From: Computers in Libraries | Date: January 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

The digital library concept requires that librarians be information architects in order to build effective, scalable Web sites to serue the digital demands of patrons.

Headline news pushed to the desktop; Web browsing from a palm-top; cyber bookstores, flower stands, and auction houses: All these are examples of how the Web has fundamentally changed where, how, and when we do business. "Just in time," a method introduced in the early '80s to manage inventory, is now an expectation of consumers for any business providing information online. "Just in time" applied to libraries ...

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