The roles of digital libraries in teaching and learning

  • Authors:
  • Gary Marchionini;Hermann Maurer

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Maryland, College Park;Univ. of Technology, Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Libraries have long served crucial roles in learning. The first great library, in Alexandria 2,000 years ago, was really the first university. It consisted of a zoo and various cultural artifacts in addition to much of the ancient world's written knowledge and attracted scholars from around the Mediterranean, who lived and worked in a scholarly community for years at a time. Today, the rhetoric associated with the National/Global Information Infrastructure (N/GII) always includes examples of how the vast quantities of information that global networks provide (i.e., digital libraries) will be used in educational settings [16].