reading notes: week 11

-Mischo: Digital Libraries: This article is about how some digital libraries went from being libraries that offered some digital resources to libraries that had full digital services, through the DLI, or digital library initiative. Some programs were federally supported when they began to digitize, including six major universities. Many of the new technologies created by these digital projects are still used and evolving today. Some of these also considered federating, or sharing their digital materials.
-Paepcke et al: Dewey meets the Turing: this article is also about the digital library initiative, and starts out by stating that it was a joining of librations and computer scientists. Computer scientists wanted to make research easier and make libraries closer to home. Librarians wanted to make sure they continued to be a part of scholarly work, and the initiative allowed the funds and the means to achieve this. It was important in the end that while many of the libraries technologies changed, the core values stayed the same. This was an important part of the article to me, it showed how a field could grow and improve with technology, but still hold on to what made the field important.
-Lynch: Institutional Repositories: This article is about digital repositories of information, and how these have changed the way scholars share information and communicate. Many of these are held in universities, and were created to hold information in digital form for scholars. This article talked about the institutional pressures and politics behind whether or not to have the repositories, and the futre of what these might bring to the scholarly world.