Week11

This week’s reading materials are about digital library, especially with academic purpose.

I think that Mischo clearly express what is the problem and what is the goal of the digital library in his article published in 2005. He summarizes that “ information providers have designed enhanced gateway and navigation services on the interface side and also introduced federation mechanisms to assist users through the distributed, heterogeneous information environment” (Mischo,2005). Also, he introduces the history of DLI, the federal movement for developing effective tools for retrieval.

Next, I strongly agree with the opinion of the authors of Dewey Meets Turing. Since starting to study the Library Science, I have heard many complaints about roles of librarians in the digital era. Some say that there are invasion from other disciplines and machines, but we already have answers about the problems. According to Dewey Meets Turing, librarians should persist their unique and traditional roles such as resource organization, collation, and presentation, and the importance of a curating service is increasing dramatically.