Kathryn Creely,Cristela Garcia-Spitz, & Brad Westbrook Presentation[PDF]
This paper explores the principles that underpin the the digital library program at UCLA, examples of collections being digitized, and the partnerships being developed to enhance the digital library collections, including discussion of the collaborative nature of creating metadata, joint projects, and collaborative agreements.
Rita Wong, Deputy Librarian and Head of Information Technology & Planning, The Chinese University of Hong Kong The paper will briefly describe digitization projects in
China-US Million Book Digital Library Project, also called CADAL, is a cooperated mass digitization project of universities and institutes in China and USA. The CADAL Project has scanned 1.43 million books and other items, mainly from the collections of 16 well-known academic libraries in China, funded by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). Zhejiang University Libraries has organized and led the digitization process. This presentation reveals the progress in and issues of the mass digitization project, such as the content selection, technology for scanning, OCR, metadata, copyright and access to the digital products.
The broad topic of the paper is digital and intellectual property rights management and the open access movement. These will have an enormous impact on the dissemination of very current research at costs far below those charged by commercial publishers, in some cases at no charge. This reformation of scholarly communication processes will allow very rapid advancement of developing nations, and may bring beneficial as well as detrimental change to those nations and the rest of the world. My approach will be from the perspective of a librarian with a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology.
Libraries digitize in order to put information more readily into the hands of the users they serve. Depending on the nature of the institution and its mission, that constituency could be limited; or, in the case of a public university library, it could be extended beyond campus boundaries to citizens in the community, state, or nation. Collectors—individual and institutional—derive their value and prestige from what they own; their interest is in protecting their investment. For libraries, however, value derives from whether and how the constituencies they serve use their collections. How do libraries building digital collections negotiate between protecting intellectual property and enabling useful access? How do libraries provide users with the information they need to determine “appropriate” use?
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