"...highly recommended as a core textbook for students of digital librarianship and related courses, as well as for essential reading for practitioners and researchers in the field of digital libraries." -- Online Information Review
G. G. Chowdhury, BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is a Professor of Information and Knowledge Management and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has co-written several best-selling books with Facet Publishing including Information Users and Usability in the Digital Age and Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Documentation, Library Review, Journal of Information Science, World Digital libraries: an international journal, and Online Information Review. Sudatta Chowdhury BSc MLISc MPhil is a Researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde.
1. Digital libraries: definition and characteristics 2. Features of some digital libraries 3. Digital library research 4. Digital library design 5. Collection management 6. Digitization 7. Information organization 8. Information access and user interfaces 9. Information retrieval in digital libraries 10. Digital archiving and preservation 11. Digital library services 12. Social, economic and legal issues 13. Digital library evaluation 14. Digital libraries and the information profession 15. Trends in digital library research and development.