INLS 235
Day 10
1. One minute papers
Big point
Most DLs in presentations referred to as ‘sites’
Future of libraries and free access
Economics crucial to info services; sustainability a big issue
More attention to cross-culutral/cross-lingual design
Questions
If libraries become publishers, who will publish fiction?
Can librarians be editors? [no, but the editors are not publishers—mostly volunteers]
Career paths in libraries? [a number of students from publishing] [UBC learning center]
DL vs D archive?
What are the differences in costs of maintaining a DL and a physical collection?
What about desk-top delivery for fee from libraries?
Does cost imply authority? [consider open source software]
What are the reactions of scholars, librarians, publishers to libraries as publishers?
2. Architectures
Guest Lecture: Butch Lazorchak: dpace and content management
3. Economics in DLs (finish): Can libraries become publishers?
Notes from the FDLC workshop
4. DL presentations
Alexa Leinaweaver International Children's Digital Library (www.icdlbooks.org/
Rita VanDuinen www.webjunction.org
Christie Hull Digital Library of Historical Directories, found at http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
Kristen
Wilson http://www.6arab.com/
5. One-minute paper
What was the main point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?