University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The DAISY Standard: Entering the Global Virtual Library

Tank, Elsebeth; Frederiksen, Carsten

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/3763

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Title
The DAISY Standard: Entering the Global Virtual Library
Author(s)
  • Tank, Elsebeth
  • Frederiksen, Carsten
Issue Date
2007
Keyword(s)
  • Library services for the visually impaired
  • Digital resources
Abstract
The emergence of the modern information society and the rapid development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has spurred libraries serving visually impaired people to cooperate globally in order to manage the transition from analog to digital services. The formation of the DAISY Consortium in 1996 led to the concept and fundamental ideas of the digital talking book. The result is an international standard for digital talking books, which is now becoming a multimedia standard. DAISY has developed new partnerships, new working methods, and new ways of thinking. The digital vision has improved library services to print-impaired people and changed the participating libraries themselves. Today some DAISY libraries are close to becoming fully digitized, and DAISY technology is heading into mainstream use. Users may soon be entering a global virtual library, and the DAISY experience may in many aspects serve as a model for future library developments.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3763
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Copyright 2007 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Owning Collections

Library Trends 55 (4) Spring 2007: Library and Information Services for Visually Impaired People PRIMARY
Library Trends 55 (4) Spring 2007: Library and Information Services for Visually Impaired People. Edited by Helen Brazier and David Owen.