Digital Library Use
Social Practice in Design and Evaluation
$70.86
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
10 October 2003
Summary
Viewing digital libraries as sociotechnical systems, networks of people and technology interacting with society.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, a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262527859 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262527855 |
| Author: | Barbara P. Buttenfield, Bruce Schatz, Nancy A. Van House, Ann Peterson-Kemp |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 608g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing |
About The Author
Barbara P. Buttenfield
Ann Peterson-Kemp is Associate Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.Nancy A. Van House is Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California, Berkeley.Barbara P. Buttenfield is Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder.
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