In the world of Internet, the long-time topic of digital libraries has suddenly become white hot. As we all know, digital libraries store materials in electronic format and works with large collection of those materials effectively.
The Glasgow Digital Library is based at the Centre for Digital Library Research in the University of Strathclyde. It was set up as part of the Research Support Libraries Programme, supplemented by funding from SCRAN and RLS for specific digitisation projects.
The original aim of the project was to establish the Glasgow Digital Lribary as a virtual co-library of the majority of public institutions in Glasgow. The long-term aim was to create a perfect digital resource to teach, learn and research at all levels in the city, bringing together material currently separated by ownership and physical location.
Nowadays, we can find different collections ( Aspect, Red Clydeside, Maxton Papers, Springburn Virtual Museum, Voyage of the Scotia, 100 Glasgow Men, SMC Journal and Victorian Times), information from many different places and subjet, and finnaly some documents too, where we find background information about the Glasgow Digital Library along with relevant reports, minutes, articles, policies, standards and contact details.
Sources
- Bruze Schatz and Hsinchun Chen. Guests editors´introduction. Bulidin large-scale digital libraries. Retrieved, the 10th October, 2009. From: http://www.icadl.org/intranet/papers/Building-96.pdf
- Glasgow Digital Library. ( July 2002). Retrievez, the 10th October, 2009. From: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/documents/gdloverview.htm
- Digital library. (2009, October 7). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:56, October 10, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_library&oldid=318521063
