How effectively can computers be used skilled tasks of professional librarianship?

Libraries are expensive and research libraries are particularly expensive. Even in the United States, few people can afford good access to primary scientific, medical, legal and scholarly information. Members of major universities have excellent library services. So do people who work in teaching hospitals, or for drug companies or rich law firms. Others have access to information only through the tedious, inefficient system of interlibrary lending. In less affluent countries the situation is worse; even the best universities cannot afford good libraries. Must access to scientific and professional information always be expensive, or is it possible that digital libraries might change this sad situation? The costs of a conventional research library fall into three main categories: facilities (which include buildings), library materials and staff. In digital libraries, the facilities costs are small, since digital libraries avoid the need for expensive buildings. Digital libraries require computers and networks, but these are relatively inexpensive, and the costs to users are shared with other services, such as electronic mail and word processing..

Sweet is Tipperary

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Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

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America The Beautiful : Patriotic Hymn

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Scholarly Information

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Sino-Soviet relations, 1964-1965

"Prepared for the Conference on Sino-Soviet Relations and Arms Control sponsored by Harvard University under contract with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, August 30-September 4, 1965.""1596"--handwritten on coverIncludes bibliographical reference

Core Services in the Architecture of the National Digital Library for Science Education (NSDL)

We describe the core components of the architecture for the (NSDL) National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library. Over time the NSDL will include heterogeneous users, content, and services. To accommodate this, a design for a technical and organization infrastructure has been formulated based on the notion of a spectrum of interoperability. This paper describes the first phase of the interoperability infrastructure including the metadata repository, search and discovery services, rights management services, and user interface portal facilities

Response to the Opening Paper by Lindsay Waters

Arms's response to Lindsay Waters's paper, "Cognition in the Wild: Networks, Criticism and Crisis," given November 7, 2008, at the Forum on Academic Publishing in the Humanities

Quality Control in Scholarly Publishing : what are the Alternatives to Peer Review?

How can a scientist build a reputation outside the traditional peer-reviewed journals