Digital Libraries Across Continents

<p><i>Digital Libraries Across Continents</i> illustrates how digital librarianship practitioners and scholars digitize exhibit and preserve their cultural heritage and how these practices may be influenced by the policy economic and sociocultural environments in which they are developed.</p><p>Including scholarly articles case studies examples of best practice and conceptual essays solicited from different continents this book provides an overview of the status quo of digital libraries around the globe. The case studies examine how macro-level policy funding and social priorities influence the development of digital libraries. The volume offers a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between libraries in different countries and the ways in which they view foster develop and sustain digital librarianship. Chapters within the book examine systems standards workflows content protocol social and policy environments culture metadata and more through a series of case studies provided by practitioners working in these settings. Taking a comparative international approach the book promotes the development of inclusive accessible and sustainable digital libraries that serve a global human knowledge endeavor.</p><p><i>Digital Libraries Across Continents</i> provides a wide-ranging examination of issues in cross-border digital library contexts. It will be essential reading for library practitioners as well as information scientists and educators.</p>