Digital Library Futures: User perspectives and institutional strategies (IFLA Publications Book 146)

Initiatives at a cross-cultural level, where libraries, museums and archives work together in creating digital libraries, and making their cultural heritage collections available online, are emerging. Leading academic researchers from the cultural heritage and the publishers sectors approach this issue: Digital library user experience: a focus on current user research; Digital library content: what users want and how they use it; Strategies for institutions: how cultural institutions and publishers respond to the digital challenge. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Foreword Conference Papers Inauguration of the Conference Welcome by the University of Milan, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and IFLA Introduction to the conference theme Session 1: The Digital Library User Experience: a Focus on Current User Research The Virtual Scholar: the Hard and Evidential Truth Who are the Users of Digital Libraries, What do they Expect and Want? The Europeana Experience A Content Analysis on the Use of Methods in Online User Research Session 2: Digital Library Content: What Users Want and How They Use It A Pianist’s Use of the Digitised Version of the Edvard Grieg Collection When is a Library NOT a Library? Session 3: Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge To Make a Better Digital Library – Some Collaborative Efforts in China Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge Strategies for Institutions: Responding to the Digital Challenge: the World Digital Library Perspective Digital Library Futures: Pressures on the Publisher-Librarian Relation in the Era of Digital Change Closing Session Closing address Final Summary Closure Appendices Biographies Photo Impressions