OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives: Volume 24 Issue 2

Screw cap or cork? Keeping tags fresh (and related matters)

Norm Medeiros

The purpose of this paper is to comment on the excitement caused by release of On the Record, the final report of the Working Group (WG) on the Future of Bibliographic Control.

Library as virtual abbey

Robert Fox

The purpose of this paper is to explore the current state of the text encoding initiative (TEI) community and suggests directions in which that community should strive based on…

ITIL: a framework for managing digital library services

Frank Cervone

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework and its relevance to digital library projects and…

Bibliographic families and relationships among family members in COBIB

Marija Petek

The purpose of this paper is to present an investigation of bibliographic families in COBIB especially relationships among their members.

Electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) repositories: What are they? Where do they come from? How do they work?

Kristin Yiotis

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the electronic theses and dissertation (ETD) repository as a subset of local institutional digital repositories. The paper discusses the…

Digitizing criminals: web delivery of a century on the cheap

Ellen Belcher, Ellen Sexton

The purpose of this paper is to present the process, challenges and lessons learned from carrying out a small digital project to create a web resource of unique historic materials…