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Collecting insights from library luminaries as well the perspectives of interesting experts from outside the ranks of library professionals, The Whole Digital Library Handbook decodes the jargon and cuts to the chase.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• 1 Definitions
• A Digital Library Is...(p. 2)
• The Invisible Library(p. 4)
• What Are Digital Libraries?(p. 5)
• What Is Digital Information?(p. 8)
• Back to the Future(p. 9)
• The New Cybrarians(p. 15)
• Libraries as Places to Linger and Mingle(p. 17)
• Research Libraries Ponder: What's Next?(p. 18)
• The Digital Library Federation: Membership Has Its Privileges(p. 24)
• What Becomes a Leader Most?(p. 27)
• Which Came First?(p. 33)
• Reference in the Digital Age(p. 38)
• Primary Resources at Your Fingertips(p. 43)
• Shelve under E(p. 48)
• Value Propositions(p. 51)
• Glossary of Terms(p. 56)
• 2 Users
• Growing Up Digital(p. 68)
• Nothing but Net(p. 71)
• Chips and Dips: Educating and Serving the Net Generation(p. 76)
• Net Gains(p. 83)
• Emerging Roles(p. 86)
• Origin of the Species(p. 90)
• Diffuse Libraries(p. 92)
• Digital Collections, Digital Libraries, and the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Information(p. 96)
• Intermediate Consumers(p. 98)
• Advanced Photo Shop(p. 100)
• Cautionary Tales: Part One(p. 103)
• Cautionary Tales: Part Two(p. 106)
• Strength in Numbers(p. 108)
• Who Uses What?(p. 111)
• Turn On before Using(p. 113)
• The Tipping Point(p. 114)
• The Case against Information Literacy(p. 117)
• How They View Us: Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources(p. 120)
• 3 The Landscape
• The Public Trust(p. 124)
• Wagging the Tail(p. 128)
• Libraries by the Tail(p. 139)
• Phoning Home Alone(p. 142)
• Keystone Cops(p. 145)
• Our Computers, Ourselves(p. 150)
• Managing the Internet(p. 155)
• Growing Pains(p. 161)
• Net Generation Students and Libraries(p. 166)
• Viewing Patterns(p. 171)
• "Is What's Past, Prologue?"(p. 176)
• Net Effects(p. 178)
• Famine or Feast?(p. 182)
• From a Distance(p. 187)
• Law Review(p. 191)
• 4 The Market
• What We Know Will Hurt Us(p. 198)
• Internet Searching Gets Thumbs Up(p. 199)
• Et Tu, Yahoo!?(p. 201)
• Fear No Evil(p. 206)
• Scanning the Horizon(p. 206)
• As Google Goes...(p. 208)
• Google, the Khmer Rouge, and the Public Good(p. 209)
• Scribes of the Digital Era(p. 218)
• Apples and Oranges(p. 222)
• Web Value(p. 225)
• 5 Tools
• The User Is Not Broken: A Meme Masquerading as a Manifesto(p. 232)
• Invasion of the Pod People(p. 233)
• Striking a Balance(p. 235)
• Getting the Goods(p. 238)
• Where's Wiki???(p. 241)
• Sticky Wikis(p. 242)
• Playing Well with Others(p. 249)
• Caught in the Webbing(p. 251)
• Defining Findability(p. 255)
• Internet Libraries(p. 259)
• Ten Tips for a Better Blog(p. 262)
• Blog Beginnings(p. 264)
• The Blog Files(p. 267)
• Coming Soon: Doing Research with Your Cell Phone(p. 269)
• Digital Library Services for All(p. 271)
• The Future of e-Books(p. 276)
• iPods Add Wow Factor(p. 281)
• More on Pod People(p. 285)
• Wireless Libraries and Wireless Communities: Why?(p. 289)
• IM the Walrus(p. 294)
• 6 Operations
• I Am the Very Model of Computerized Librarian(p. 300)
• Starting Out(p. 301)
• Principles for Good Digital Collections(p. 302)
• Just Say the Word(p. 305)
• Starting a Digitization Project(p. 309)
• Technical Infrastructure/Image Creation(p. 313)
• Factors to Consider When Choosing Digital Formats(p. 314)
• Digitization = Access(p. 318)
• Going Where the Users Are(p. 321)
• Chatting It Up(p. 326)
• Making Chat Work Better(p. 328)
• Copyright Need-to-Know Basics(p. 330)
• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States(p. 336)
• Why Librarians Care about Copyright(p. 340)
• 7 Preservation
• Digitization Is Not Preservation-at Least Not Yet(p. 342)
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at Digital Preservation(p. 345)
• Strategies for Preserving Digital Content(p. 358)
• The Key to LOCKSS: An Interview with Victoria Reich, Director, LOCKSS Program(p. 363)
• 8 The Future
• Reinventing the Library(p. 370)
• The Third Law(p. 374)
• Keeping It Open(p. 378)
• A Modest Proposal(p. 387)
• Looking for Bucks(p. 392)
• Getting the Right Stuff(p. 397)
• Tips for Managing E-Resources(p. 402)
• Index(p. 409)

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Booklist Review

This volume is a compendium similar to ALA's Whole Library Handbook (4th ed., 2006) except that it focuses on digital libraries. Part 1 defines the digital library, e-reference, and the digital library federation. Additional parts cover users, tools, operations, and more. Besides librarians, other experts and commentators on the various technologies present their views on topics ranging from Google's digital book project, to interpretations of NextGen demographic data, to digital preservation. The assembled facts, lore, wit and wisdom, guidelines, documents, and advice should engender raucous discussions and debates and raise more questions than they answer. All articles included are excerpted, with full texts available elsewhere as indicated in the citations.--Awe, Susan Copyright 2007 Booklist