Digital Services in Academic Libraries

Abstract

Academic libraries consider themselves to be guarantors of a high-quality sup¬ ply of literature for the academic community. What does the provision of infor¬ mation services mean today? How do we define digital services in the age of the World Wide Web? The following article attempts to answer these questions and in so doing to help orientate libraries as they set an important new course for the future.

The article is the English translation of the German article: "Digitale Dienstleistungen in wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken: Das Internet setzt Maßstäbe." In: Zeitschrift Buch und Bibliothek, BuB, Dossier zur "Bibliothek 2007", 3, 57 (2005, 05, pp. 365-376).

This is a chapter from “Digital Convergence – Libraries of the Future” Eds Rae Earnshaw and John Vince and reproduced here by permission of the publisher. It is copyright Springer Verlag 2008. Details of the book are at – http://www.springer.com/uk/home/generic/search/results?SGWID=3-40109- 22-173735439-0