The User Interface: Bridging Human Needs and System Constraints in Digital Libraries

INLS 235 Spring 2003

Gary Marchionini

Academic Library

Special Library

Public Library

Digital Libraries

(Information Resources + Technology)

Shared Digital Libraries Lead to Integrated

Resources and Services (Federation)


	Note the importance of the DLs moving closer together!

	My own estimate is that they will never ALL become one grand unified DL, but we will have many new DLs composed of various existing DLs and any given PL may participate in multiple DLs.