Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library: An Emerging Design

Sonnenwald, D. H. and Marchionini, Gary and Wildemuth, B. M. and Dempsey, B. L. and Viles, C. R. and Tibbo, H. R. and Smith, J. S. Collaboration Services in a Participatory Digital Library: An Emerging Design., 1999 . In Third International Conference on Conception of Library and Information Science, 23-26 May 1999. [Conference paper]

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Digital libraries need to provide and extend traditional library services in the digital environment. This paper presents a project that will provide and extend library services through the development of a sharium-a workspace with rich content and powerful tools where people can collaborate with others or work independently to explore information resources, learn, and solve their information problems. A sharium is a learning environment that combines the features of a collaboratory, where people collectively engage in research by sharing rich information resources, and a local library, where people come to meet, find information resources, and discuss common interests. To achieve this, collaboration services that build on synchronous and asynchronous communication technology should be integrated with other digital library services, including searching, browsing, and information management and authoring services. This paper presents our motivation for providing collaboration services and describes the types of collaboration services that will be included in the digital library.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: digital library, collaboration, library services, reference services, computer-supported cooperative work, collaboration technology
Subjects: L. Information technology and library technology
D. Libraries as physical collections.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum.
Depositing user: Diane Sonnenwald
Date deposited: 14 Aug 2006
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7968

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