Libraries in the Digital Age: LIDA 2005
| Date | 01 September 2005 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050510633880 |
| Published date | 01 September 2005 |
| Pages | 12-13 |
| Author | Sanjica Faletar |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science |
Libraries in the Digital Age:
LIDA 2005
Sanjica Faletar
12 LIBRARY HITECH NEWS Number 8 2005, pp. 12-13, #Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 0741-9058, DOI 10.1108/07419050510633880
``What Can Digital Libraries do that
Traditional Libraries Cannot? Or Do in
Addition? and Building a Small Digital
Library and Library Network'' were
main topics of ``Libraries in the Digital
Age,'' known as the LIDA conference
held in Dubrovnik and Mljet, Croatia,
30 May-3 June 2005. The meeting
attracted 149 participants from 15
countries worldwide, including 39
students. The event was opened by
keynote speaker Dr Christine L.
Borgman, professor and presidential
chair in Information Studies at the
University of California, Los Angeles,
who talked about e-science and
cyberinfrastructure and its relationship
to digital libraries.
The LIDA 2005 conference was
co-organised by Tatjana Aparac of the
Department of Information Sciences,
University of Osijek, Croatia and Dr
Tefko Saracevic from the School of
Communication, Information and
Library Studies at Rutgers University,
USA and the program is noted at:
www.ffos.hr/lida/program/ Saracevic
discussed ``How Were Digital Libraries
Evaluated?'' and provided an overview
of works on digital library evaluation
that included data. Digital library
evaluation was the topic of two other
papers presented. Elaine Peterson from
Montana State University, USA,
presented ``User-Centered Evaluation
of Two Digital Libraries'' regarding the
Montana Natural Resource Information
System and Mateja Smid of the
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and
Darko Majcenovic of the National and
University Library, Ljubljana,
described ``User-centered Evaluation
Framework of Digital Repositories:
Re-use Experience,'' where they
described a project from the EU
eContent scheme reUSE whose main
goal is to collect and make available
digitally printed publications of public
sector institutions and archive them for
long-term preservation.
The conference featured three other
invited speakers who discussed their
current research and projects. ``Practice
and Theory in Digital Libraries: The
Case of Open Video'' was presented by
Gary Marchionini from the School of
Information and Library Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, USA. The purpose of the Open
Video Project (www.open-video.org) is
to collect and make available a
repository of digitized video content for
the digital video, multimedia retrieval,
digital library, and other research
communities. Bernard Frischer,
director, Institute for Advanced
Technology in the Humanities,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
USA (www.iath.v irginia.edu/) discussed
Serving and Archiving Virtual
Environments (SAVE), which is the
framework for creating, archiving, and
distributing an online real-time
visualization of the entire cultural
history of humanity. Once built, SAVE
would become a powerful
omnidisciplinary tool for research and
education. It would help us to visualize
the development of human culture and
to analyze the continuous interaction
between humanity and the natural
world. Robert M. Hayes, professor
Emeritus, Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies,
UCLA, USA, who has been coming to
Dubrovnik thanks to Professor Bozo
Tezak and his seminars at Inter-
University Centre regularly since 1977,
was a Guest of Honour at LIDA 2005.
In his paper, ``Analysis of Circulation
Data for the UCLA Library: 1997-
2003'' he discussed his investigation of
UCLA library circulation data. In his
second talk ``How did I get here? a
reminiscence, and Where am I going? a
speculation'', Professor Hayes talked
about his past work and current research
interests.
In ``The Use of Electronic Resources
by Digital Reference Services'', Jeffrey
Pomerantz from the School of
Information and Library Science,
University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, USA, described a collaborative
virtual reference service ``NCKnows''
(http://ncknows.org) and looked at
ways to increase librarians' use of NC
LIVE (North Carolina Libraries for
Virtual Education) which offers the
citizens of North Carolina online access
to complete articles from over 10,000
newspapers, journals, magazines, and
encyclopedias, indexing for over
20,000 periodical titles, and access to
over 24,000 electronic books.
In ``Co-Browsing at the Reference
Desk'' Richard E. Stern from Seton
Hall University, USA, demonstrated
co-browsing at the reference desk and
discussed its benefits and drawbacks in
comparison to solo and co-viewing.
Graham Coe, director of Electronic
Services Division, National Library of
New Zealand, in his presentation
``Collaborative Models for Provision of
Digital Library Services: Experiences
from the National Library of New
Zealand'' looked at ways in which
collaboration between cultural
organizations can enhance innovative
digital library services. He focused on
the following projects: Electronic
Purchasing in Collaboration (EPIC)
consortium (www.epic.org.nz), a
collaborative virtual reference service
for children AnyQuestions? (www.
anyquestions.co.nz) and Metapihi
(www.metapihi.org.nz), a collaborative
resource discovery tool which provides
a single point access for ca 50,000
images, sounds and objects from the
heritage collections of New Zealand's
archives, galleries, museums and
libraries.
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