Browse Library Trends 57 (1) Summer 2008: Digital Books and the Impact on Libraries by Title

  • Digital Text Collections, Linguistic Research Data, and Mashups: Notes on the Legal Situation 
    Lehmberg, Timm; Rehm, Georg; Witt, Andreas; Zimmerman, Felix (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Comprehensive data repositories are an essential part of practically all research carried out in the digital humanities nowadays. For example, library science, literary studies, and computational and corpus linguistics ...

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  • The End of the Gutenberg Era 
    Epstein, Jason (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Digitization has brought the five hundred-year-old Gutenberg era to an end. Gutenberg’s press opened the gates to our modern rational, secular world. The cultural impact of today’s digital technologies, which will bring ...

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  • Information Discovery in Ambiguous Zones of Research 
    Sukovic, Suzana (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Electronic environments for information discovery are considered in relation to open-ended and dynamic research practices in the humanities, but a system suitable for these scholars would have many other applications ...

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  • Introduction: Homes for Good (Orphan) Books 
    Brantley, Peter (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Introduction to Library Trends 57 (1) Winter 2008: Digital Books and the Impact on Libraries

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  • A Mass Digitization Primer 
    Sutherland, Juliet (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    Many people are talking these days about “digitizing books.” But what does that really mean? This paper describes different kinds of digitizing, the pros and cons of each, and suggests a layered structure for understanding ...

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  • The Role of Self-Publishing in Libraries 
    Dawson, Laura (Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008)
    The boom in self-publishing has created a market of hundreds of thousands of new books a year. The Library of Congress doesn’t catalog most of these. Is it fair to dismiss these books as “vanity publications,” or are ...

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