TY - BOOK ID - 79266580 TI - Using massive digital libraries : a LITA guide PY - 2014 SN - 9780838912355 9780838919736 9780838919743 9780838996249 0838919731 083891974X 0838912354 PB - Chicago, Ill. ALA TechSource DB - UniCat KW - Book acquisition KW - Documentation and information KW - Computer. Automation KW - Digital libraries. KW - Libraries KW - Scholarly electronic publishing. KW - Scholarly Web sites. KW - Digital libraries KW - Electronic collection development (Libraries) KW - Electronic library collection development KW - Collection development (Libraries) KW - Academic Web sites KW - Learned Web sites KW - Web sites KW - Electronic scholarly publishing KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Electronic publishing KW - Scholarly publishing KW - Documentation KW - Public institutions KW - Librarians 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 - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Web archives KW - Special collections KW - Computer network resources. KW - Electronic information sources. KW - Collection development. KW - Google Library Project KW - Google Books Library Project KW - Google Book Search Library Project KW - Google (Firm). KW - Google livres (Project) KW - Google Print Library Project KW - Computer network resources UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79266580 AB - Some have viewed the ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the traditional library. But Weiss, recognizing the concept of the library as a ""big idea"" that has been implemented in many ways over thousands of years, is not so gloomy. In this thought-provoking and unabashedly optimistic book, he explores how massive digital libraries are already adapting to society's needs, and looks ahead to the massive digital libraries of tomorrow, coveringThe author's criteria for defining massive digital librariesA history o ER -