Reading #1 - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/mischo/07mischo.html
- Major problems in digital librarianship is keeping up with the plethora of methods through which digital materials are published
-Finding a link between these various methods has been most difficult task
-Interest in Digital Libraries began with government funded studies during the early 1990's
-68 Million dollars in grants were dispersed among 6 university research projects from the NSF
-Despite the early flow of funding, the development of digital publishing has far outpaced the research done in digital libraries
-Federation of materials and resources among institutions is the current best practice in developing digital libraries
Reading #2 - http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/paepcke/07paepcke.html
-In 1994, the NSF launched the Digital Library Initiative
-Combined Librarians, Records Managers, and Historians to develop possible Digital Library solutions
-Computer Scientists saw it as a great way to distribute information, Librarians saw a new way for increased funding for innovation and research
-Despite early success, the growth of the World Wide Web challenged these institution based projects
-Copyright restrictions in the DLI prevented great use of the WWW in research and development under federal grants
-CS experts welcomed the use of the WWW, but librarians understood the underlying issues of distributing information without check
-Still, because of the speed associated with the WWW, digital librarians still have a place in providing reference to those looking to narrow research and search results
Reading #3 - http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/br226ir.pdf
-The drop in online storage costs and the growth of Internet use have led to interesting possibilities for developing digital libraries
-They focus mainly on connecting online institutional repositories, compiling databases of resources that can be accessed en masse and at any time
-Many institutions have combined with technology powerhouses like HP to develop the technology and software necessary to support digital based repositories
-Institutional repositories are ways which library systems provide access and information to larger communities through quick online or digital distribution
-These are necessary to adapt to the quickening of information distribution facilitated through the World Wide Web and online repositories like Wikipedia or publication databases
-It also provides a way for scholars or instructors to provide information to students in the short academic terms without needing to acquire alot of physical materials
-Greatly facilitates increases in scholarly materials and speeds up the academic process
-Issues still occur, such as the "watering down" of scholarly information as more and more is produced, and also issues with copyright infringement inherent to published materials challenge quick and easy distribution
-Because of this trends are constantly changing to adapt to the speed of internet demand and its reaction to the traditionally protected status of paper published materials,
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