The roles of digital libraries in teaching and learning
Communications of the ACM
The coordination of work activities: cooperation and conflict in a hospital context
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Understanding complex information environments: a social analysis of watershed planning
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
Content + connectivity = community: digital resources for a learning community
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
Talking in the library: implications for the design of digital libraries
DL '97 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Digital libraries
Digital libraries and knowledge disaggregation: the use of journal article components
Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Digital libraries
Making digital libraries go: comparing use across genres
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Communications of the ACM
Technology and values: lessons from central and eastern Europe
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Use of multiple digital libraries: a case study
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Design Guidelines and User-Centred Digital Libraries
ECDL '99 Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Digital Libraries in a Clinical Setting: Friend or Foe?
ECDL '01 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Social empowerment and exclusion: A case study on digital libraries
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Interacting with information resources: digital libraries for education
International Journal of Learning Technology
ICADL'10 Proceedings of the role of digital libraries in a time of global change, and 12th international conference on Asia-Pacific digital libraries
Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction
Developing national digital library of Albania for pre-university schools: a case study
TPDL'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Theory and practice of digital libraries: research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Evaluation of a personalized digital library based on cognitive styles: Adaptivity vs. adaptability
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Although web accessible digital libraries (DLs) have greatly increased potential information accessibility within academia, the use of these resources varies widely across disciplines. This study, within contrasting departments (Humanities, Computing and Business) of a London university, reviews the social and organisational impacts of DLs across these disciplines. In-depth interviews and focus groups were used to gather data from 25 lecturers and librarians, and results analysed using the grounded theory method. Web-accessible DLs are identified as changing the roles and working patterns of academic staff (i.e. lecturers, librarians and computer support staff). However, poor accessibility due to inappropriate implementation strategies, access mechanisms, searching support & DL usability reduces the use of these resources. Consequently, web and personal collections without guarantees of quality are widely used as an accessible alternative. One conclusion is the importance of implementation strategies (e.g. giving feedback on document context, collection boundaries, ownership, accountability and support) in informing DL design.