Friday Links - 2 : Digital Libraries by William Y. Arms - Complete book

Digital Libraries by Willian Y Arms is the most sought after book in Digital Libaries. This books gives the complete overview of Digital Libraries.

The online edition of Digital Libraries is an updated version of the book published by the M.I.T. Press in January 2000. It is available completely freely. You can read the complet book @ http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/DigLib/

This book will be especially useful for those who would like to pursue a career in Digital Libraries.

The Table of Contents of the book is

Preface
1 Background
2 The Internet and the World Wide Web
3 Libraries and publishers
4 Innovation and research
5 People, organizations, and change
6 Economic and legal issues
7 Access management and security
8 User interfaces and usability
9 Text
10 Information retrieval and descriptive metadata
11 Distributed information discovery
12 Object models, identifiers, and structural metadata
13 Repositories and archives
14 Digital libraries and electronic publishing today
Glossary

Happy weekend reading...!