Readings

Digital Libraries: Challenges and Influential Work
-Search and discovery is always difficult
-There is a difference between providing access to discrete sets of digital collections and providing digital library services - But what is that difference? I don't feel it was really addressed.
-There were early federal research projects that led to the digital library of today.
-This research led to many new developments, such as digital copies of journals and Google.
-There have also been digital library technologies that have come from non-federally funded projects, such as Yahoo, D-space and XML.

Dewey meets Turing: Librarians, Computer Scientists and the Digital Libraries Initiative.
-Digital Libraries Initiative brought librarians and computer scientists together.
-Analogy of the two disciplines being brought together and then having to deal with an undisciplined teenager (a.k.a. the World Wide Web).

Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age
Developments
-Repositories are now more affordable as it costs less for digital storage.
-Many universities look to MIT and their DSpace program as a model.
-Lynch thinks repositories should have the work of students and faculty.
-He stresses that there is a difference between scholarly publishing and scholarly communication.
3 Main Cautions about Institutional Repositories
1. I.R.s that try to exert control over faculty and student work will probably fail.
2. Don't put too many policy restraints on the I.R.
3. Institutions shouldn't create an I.R. hastily just because it's popular. They need to realize the commitment it takes.