Digital library use : social practice in design and evaluation /

• Other Authors: Bishop, Ann P., Van House, Nancy A., Buttenfield, Barbara Pfeil
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2003.
• Series: Digital libraries and electronic publishing.
• Subjects: Digital libraries > Social aspects.; Digital libraries > Planning.; Information technology > Social aspects.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.; Digitala bibliotek.; Elektronisk publicering > biblioteksmaterial.; Electronic books.

The contributors to this volume view digital libraries (DLs) from a social as well as technological perspective. They see DLs as sociotechnical systems, networks of technology, information artifacts, and people and practices interacting with the larger world of work and society. As Bruce Schatz obse...