Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge: the World Digital Library Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Foreword 9
5. Conference Papers Inauguration of the Conference
6. Welcome by the University of Milan, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and IFLA 15
7. Introduction to the conference theme 19
8. Session 1: The Digital Library User Experience: a Focus on Current User Research
9. The Virtual Scholar: the Hard and Evidential Truth 23
10. Who are the Users of Digital Libraries, What do they Expect and Want? The Europeana Experience 33
11. A Content Analysis on the Use of Methods in Online User Research 41
12. Session 2: Digital Library Content: What Users Want and How They Use It
13. A Pianist’s Use of the Digitised Version of the Edvard Grieg Collection 53
14. When is a Library NOT a Library? 61
15. Session 3: Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge
16. To Make a Better Digital Library – Some Collaborative Efforts in China 81
17. Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge 87
18. Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge: the World Digital Library Perspective 97
19. Digital Library Futures: Pressures on the Publisher-Librarian Relation in the Era of Digital Change 107
20. Closing Session
21. Closing address 117
22. Final Summary 123
23. Closure 131
24. Appendices
25. Biographies 135
26. Photo Impressions 143