Manual "Working in a digital library" has been motivated by popular Croatian manual by Katica Tadic: Working in a library, Opatija : Benja, 1994. (http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/biblio/nastava/dz/text/katm.htm) as well as by worldwide popular manual for digital collections development by Peter Noerr: The Digital Library Tool Kit. Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2002. (http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/libraries/digitaltoolkit.html).
Manual consist of articles, lectures, workshops and relevenat content from newsletter "Electronic news about librarianship on Internet" (authorized access for Croatian version at www.ring.net/coni/moje_novosti.html and English version at www.ring.net/coni/my_news.html). It also includes cases and practial experiences of the author, Vesna Turčin ([email protected]), free-lance librarian and consultant from Zagreb, Croatia.
Manual has been designed and published as an electronic book, credits for concept and publishing go to authors longtime associate Lovro Valcic, Alaska, US ([email protected]). It is assigned to Croatian librarians and students. Its purpose is to illustrate and explain work with digital content and usage of cost-free sources on Internet in a daily life of a public library
