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The Biodiversity Heritage Library website, an example of a digital library. A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...
For the Library of Congress, items of national interest were prime candidates both to improve access and reduce wear and tear on the physical copies. [ 1 ] In the early discussions about digitization of library materials the selection decisions were often proposed based on a desire for better access to that item's content, and not on the ...
A digital bookmobile. In 2012, the William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University closed its physical building and moved completely online. “We’ve looked at the trends and seen that use of the building has gone down, the circulation of paper material has gone down, at the same time we’ve seen very large increases in the use of online materials," said the library's director ...
One of the core activities of a library is to loan materials, and proponents argue that CDL is a modern digital extension of this function. With CDL, a library takes a physical copy of a legally acquired item and digitizes it. After digitization, DRM is applied to the digital version, and the physical item is then made unavailable for loan.
Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or digital (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location, a virtual space, or both. A library's collection normally includes printed materials which may be borrowed, and usually also includes a reference section of publications which may only be utilized inside the premises. Resources such as ...
The Queer Liberation Library (QLL, pronounced "quill") [1] is an LGBT digital library based in the United States. QLL aims to provide resources representing LGBT communities in an online space that is accessible to anyone in the United States, especially those living in areas where physical access to LGBT books is limited. [2]
The Emergency Temporary Access Service [18] (ETAS) is a service provided by HathiTrust that makes it possible in certain special situations, such as closure of a library for a public health emergency, for users of HathiTrust member libraries to obtain lawful access to copyright digital materials in place of the corresponding physical books held ...
The goal of digital preservation is the accurate rendering of authenticated content over time. [3] The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association defined digital preservation as combination of "policies, strategies and actions that ensure access to digital ...