The Role of Digital Libraries in a Time of Global Change: 12th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2010, Gold Coast, Australia, June 21-25, 2010, Proceedings
Gobinda Chowdhury · Chris Khoo · Jane Hunter
Jun 2010 · Springer
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270
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The year 2010 was a landmark in the history of digital libraries because for the first time this year the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the annual International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL) were held together at the Gold Coast in Australia. The combined conferences provided an - portunity for digital library researchers, academics and professionals from across the globe to meet in a single forum to disseminate, discuss, and share their valuable - search. For the past 12 years ICADL has remained a major forum for digital library - searchers and professionals from around the world in general, and for the Asia-Pacific region in particular. Research and development activities in digital libraries that began almost two decades ago have gone through some distinct phases: digital libraries have evolved from mere networked collections of digital objects to robust information services designed for both specific applications as well as global audiences. Con- quently, researchers have focused on various challenges ranging from technical issues such as networked infrastructure and the creation and management of complex digital objects to user-centric issues such as usability, impact and evaluation. Simulta- ously, digital preservation has emerged and remained as a major area of influence for digital library research. Research in digital libraries has also been influenced by s- eral socio-economic and legal issues such as the digital divide, intellectual property, sustainability and business models, and so on. More recently, Web 2.
About the author
Jane Hunter garnered much acclaim in 1984 with the publication of The Gospel of Gentility: American Women Missionaries in Turn-of-the-Century China. Based on the writings of female missionaries, Hunter's book explores the life of these religious women. This fascinating book, which both examines religious practices and depicts women's roles, won the Governors Award from Yale University Press. Jane Hunter was born on January 31, 1949, in Hanover, N.H. She was educated at Yale University and has taught at Colby College and Radcliffe College.
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