The Study of Electronic Resources Collection Development in National Central Library
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Lin, Chiao-Min
Abstract
Current users have been relying on digital resources dramatically with the ever increasing of electronic resources. As a result, it has become an important issue to establish the collection of electronic resources in libraries in order to thrive in the environment of information competition. In particular, the National Library has to take a lead to develop itself own collection of electronic resources, as well as has an advanced plan for enhancing library enterprise. This thesis aims to provide suitable guidelines for establishing the policies of electronic resources for the National Library. ccording to literature review, the most common methods for establishing electronic resources include acquiring market produces, organizing network resources, and digitalizing collections. For the National Library, the strategies for developing electronic collections can be summarized as the policies of legal deposit, acquisition plan, web archiving, collection digitalization and digital preservation. In order to achieve them, the thesis takes an extensive literature review for understanding the different collection policies of electronic resources among many national libraries. In addition, several in-depth interviews are pursued for realizing different opinions of scholars and experts and for understanding the difficulties facing by the present publishing companies. Through the extensive literature searching and in-depth interviews, this thesis is expected to provide impetus and paradigms for drawing electronic collection policies in Taiwan National Central Library. he proposed guidelines are summarized as follows.. The original collection policies have to be modified for satisfying the needs of current library users who focus only on electronic resources.. It is necessary to define the standard of legal deposit clearly. Further, physical carrier electronic resources have to be deposit and their reasonable usages have also needed to be explained in advanced.. The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) system for electronic resources has to be established first, and a share platform for all electronic resources has also needed to be developed among libraries.. The role of National Library has to be intensified for participating all possible discussions of standards of electronic resources. Besides, the acquisition policy of electronic resources has to be addressed.. It is important to map out the future of web archiving at an early stage in order for long-term cooperation development.. Some topics of electronic resources from legal deposit are chosen so as to drive experimentally full-text mining projects.. The information organization standard of electronic resources has to be developed, and some representative electronic resources into library catalog are granted to be chosen.. A conscientious unit or work team in the National Library has to be established independently to deal with all problems of electronic resources.. It is necessary to investigate the current electronic resources collected in all local libraries so as to build up the foundation for future cooperation.0. It is important to build up an uploading and authorizing platform for sharing electronic resources through the idea of WEB 2.0.
Subjects
Collection Development Policy
Electronic Resources
Legal Deposit
Web Archiving
Collection Digitalization
Digital Preservation
Type
thesis
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