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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2010
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED510448 |
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Table of Contents:
- The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship. CLIR Publication No. 147 Courant, Paul N. Henry, Charles Henry, Geneva Nielsen, Matthew Schonfeld, Roger C. Smith, Kathlin Spiro, Lisa Research Libraries Academic Libraries Library Materials Access to Information Electronic Libraries Electronic Publishing Books Printed Materials Barriers Resistance to Change Preservation Costs Cataloging Case Studies Foreign Countries Storage Humanities Scholarship This document explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transition for managing research collections. The volume comprises three reports. The first, "Can a New Research Library be All-Digital?" by Lisa Spiro and Geneva Henry, explores the degree to which a new research library can eschew print. The second, "On the Cost of Keeping a Book," by Paul Courant and Matthew "Buzzy" Nielsen, argues that from the perspective of long-term storage, digital surrogates offer a considerable cost savings over print-based libraries. The final report, "Ghostlier Demarcations," examines how well large text databases being created by Google Books and other mass-digitization efforts meet the needs of scholars, and the larger implications of these projects for research, teaching, and publishing. The reports are introduced by Charles Henry; the volume includes a conclusion by Roger Schonfeld and an epilogue by Charles Henry. (Individual articles contain tables, figures, and footnotes.)