Digital libraries (Topical Term)
- Electronic libraries
- Electronic text collections
- Virtual libraries
- Broader heading: Libraries
- Information storage and retrieval systems
Work cat.: 95-40028: The National Electronic Library, 1996.
95-159026: Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94, the first annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 1994: pp. 1-2 (Digital library, electronic library, virtual library all used as synonymous in paper, "does not seem clear in the literature if what is meant by the digital library is a series of ... collections or one ... collection") p. 163 (prevailing view is that digital libraries are archival collections of digital materials to be browsed and queried by information-seeking individuals)
LC database, 09/20/95.
MAG3 09/20/95: r "digital libraries".
The evolving virtual library, 1995.
WWW, Oct. 3, 2000 (electronic text collections; digital libraries)
Rhyno, A. Using open source systems for digital libraries, 2003 (Digital Library Federation definiton of "digital libraries" quoted in Preface: "organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities.")