Digital Library Services

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Digital Library Services

Preserving Digital Information to Support Scholarship

January 1, 2002

Lynch examines the numerous technical obstacles related to digital information and preservation and describes some efforts in the various arenas. He also discusses the legal, social, and political …

Preservation of Scholarship: The Digital Dilemma

January 1, 2002

Marcum notes that content creators today play a critical role in the chain of scholarly communication now that digital capture techniques are widely employed. This role, when coupled with faculty a…

The Valley of the Shadow: Scholarship in the Digital World

January 1, 2004

The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology was created to match motivated humanists with broad-minded computer scientists to create new tools for understanding the record o…

Forum Futures 2003

January 1, 2003

2003 Forum Futures is a collection of summaries of the 15 papers presented and discussed at the Forum's 2002 Aspen Symposium. Papers explore topics such as mastering innovation as a force for …

The Internet and the University: 2002 Forum

January 1, 2003

The Internet and the University: Forum 2002 includes the papers presented and discussed at the Forum on the Internet and the University, held during the Forum's 2002 Aspen Symposium. The Int…

Distance Learning and the Digital Library

January 1, 1998

Or, what happens when the virtual student needs to use the virtual library in a virtual university. Or, what happens when the virtual student needs to …

Making Being There as Good as Being Here

January 1, 1999

To give distant learners the same "home advantage" of their on-campus peers, the University of Minnesota Libraries have launched a new distance learning support project, using technology …