Ipl2 is a great resource, but I agree that it will probably not become a
national digital library system. Still, what they have is very good. I
think it is optimal for children and young adults. The National Digital
Library would need massive participation among many librarians and
scholars, hopefully from around the world. I think the primary
difficulty is to resolve issues of so-called "quality selection": what
it is and how to do it. If something can be selected, it can be
cataloged but it all must be done coooperatively. A lot of it, I think,
is setting up and managing a shared cataloging workflow, but that is
another matter.
A wonderful resource is/was Intute, which was always my very first
choice. I was hoping that somehow it could grow into a type of
national/international digital library system but unfortunately, because
of the economic meltdown in the UK, it lost its funding and will be shut
down in July. http://www.intute.ac.uk <http://www.intute.ac.uk/> This is
really a disaster because it was so well done. There is also Infomine,
which is primarily for universities http://infomine.ucr.edu
<http://infomine.ucr.edu/>. I made a tool to help me utilize these tools
at
http://www.galileo.aur.it/opac-tmpl/npl/en/pages/news/latestwebsites.html and
some others, which provides the RSS feeds to get the newest site listings.
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James L. Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com
First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
Cooperative Cataloging Rules: http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/
Received on Tue May 24 2011 - 08:23:51 EDT