Developing National Digital Library of Albania for Pre-university Schools: A Case Study

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2011

Abstract

While the concept of digital library (DL) is well perceived and applied in developed countries, it is still a big challenge to the developing nations. There are great disparities, known as digital divide between developed countries and developing countries in terms of electronic resource funding, availability, and accessibility. DL, together with the information retrieval (IR) system, is believed to be an effective way to mend the gap of digital divide. This paper will employ a real case to discuss the significance of developing a national level of digital library for pre-university schools of Albania, the challenges of designing such information system both economically and technologically, and considerations of designing the digital library.

Comments

International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries.

Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_35


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