In the chaos of getting ready for the on-campus weekend I completely forgot about this posting so here it is…
For some reason I was really struck by the fact that digital libraries are relatively young. I had never heard, or at least paid any attention to the Digital Libraries Initiative from 1993. I guess digitals libraries being commonplace in today’s world just caused me to take them for granted and never really look at their origins. I think these readings were a nice break from the more technical material we have been covering for just that reason, it was a nice history of development as opposed to “this is how it is done.” I think it gives us a perspective of the rapid growth and acceptance of the concept. I also noticed that from the historic perspective, even if the articles are only a few years old, we are still struggling with many of the same issues today.
Muddiest point: Kind of confused on what happened, we went from 9 -->11? Not sure if I missed something or not.
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Conversely, I was actually surprised at how "old" digital libraries are! Back in the mid-late '90s, I had very little access to computers until I started at Pitt in 1997-98, I had never been on the internet so the existence of digital libraries completely passed me by.
These articles did provide a great history lesson and I have a much greater appreciation of the challenges involved with institutional repositories, etc.
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