ID - 494657 TI - Digital libraries and information access : research perspectives AU - Chowdhury, G. G. AU - Foo, Schubert PY - 2012 SN - 9781856048217 1856048217 9781856049764 1856049760 9781555709143 1555709141 1306342163 PB - London : Facet, DB - UniCat KW - Information retrieval KW - Information user KW - Digital libraries. KW - Bibliothèques virtuelles KW - Bibliothèques virtuelles KW - Digital curation KW - Digital media collections KW - Digital media libraries KW - Digital repositories KW - Electronic libraries KW - Electronic publication collections KW - Electronic publication libraries KW - Electronic text collections KW - Repositories, Digital KW - Virtual libraries KW - Libraries KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Web archives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:494657 AB - An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries. Internationally-renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research. The increasing number of digital libraries in all sectors and the pressure of ever demanding and diverse user needs has encouraged development of user-centred interfaces, intelligent search and retrieval capabilities, effective metadata description and contents organisation. In addition to the two editors who are renowned for their works in digital library research, this collection brings together established international names in the field such as Elena Maceviciute, Suliman Hawamdeh, Chris Yang, Stefan Gradmann, Michael Fraser, Tom Wilson and Ali Shiri to analyse these developments in relation to users and information access and the future trends and challenges that practitioners will face. Providing an invaluable resource for LIS students, academics and researchers interested in digital libraries and access, it is also a useful introduction to developments for those developing, managing or just starting out with digital libraries. ER -