Libraries in the digital age 2004

• "Human Information Behavior" and "Competences for Digital Libraries" were themes of the sixth Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) conference. Co-organizer Tefko Saracevic, from Rutgers University's School of Communications, said there are "no neat answers" for defining a digital library, only a set of concepts consisting of digital content, access, users, technical infrastructure, and networks, and an institutional context which includes policies and cooperation, and it is a global phenomenon. In her session "User Behavior in an Academic Library's Digital Reference Environment: Implications for Service Development," Jo Kibbee, from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, discussed access (40 percent by library Web site), who uses the services (88 percent are institutional affiliates), why they use the service (convenience and because the library is too far), what they ask (about the library rather than facts), and how they ask (chat or e-mail).

Subject headings

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap -- Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications -- Information Studies (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap

Library and Information Science

Publication and Content Type

pop (subject category)

art (subject category)