This library was great because it essentially talked about the evolution of libraries and how the dissemination of information has changed since many of us were children. Contemporary digital libraries are interesting because they are user-friendly and easy-to-use
Dewey Meets Turing
This article talks about the DLI (Digital Library Initiative) and how it changed information retrieval, and eventually ended up spreading to other groups. This initiative has been successful due to the explosion of the World Wide Web. This article was informative to me because I did not know that this DLI started in 1994, even before the World Wide Web become a prominent part of culture.
Association of Research Libraries
This article talks about the digital revolution and how it has changed the development and sharing of information. The article specifically talks about universities and how they are responding to this revolution. It discusses how universities have been taking an active role and publishing journals online as opposed to relying on print publishers, as they have in the past. Some of the reasons cited for this change in scholarly publishing is cheaper costs, as well as greater storage space. I liked this article because this topic was something we discussed in great detail in LIS 2000 and it's a topic I am very interested in. Information that was once difficult to find is now available at the tip of your fingertips in digital libraries.
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