Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz observes in his foreword, for a digital library to be useful, the users, the documents, and the information system must be in harmony.The contributors begin by asking how we evaluate DLs -- how we can unde...
ISBN(s)
0262025442, 9780262025447
