This presentation analyzes the nine-year experience of an academic digital library, e-Asia, which now holds over 4,000 items. In many respects, the e-Asia library is a long-running experiment. Yet the project is mature enough to provided lessons in what to do (and what not to do) when digital text is the focus of collection building. Unlike traditional libraries where, over time, books migrate to and from their shelves, digital libraries hold content that remains relatively immobile while it is the digital “shelves” that change and migrate over time.

Catherine Quinlan – Dean of the USC Libraries Hugh McHarg – Executive Director of Communications and Public Programming, USC Libraries The new University of Southern California Digital Library is the outcome of significant transformations in the USC Libraries’ digitization philosophy, practice, and infrastructure. The new entity unites digitization processes, collection-development strategies, metadata services, distributed content [...]

PRDLA is pleased to announce that the Karl Lo Award has been presented to Paolina Martin, Singapore Management University, and to Patrick Pu, National University of Singapore. Ms. Martin is the director of the Institutional Repository at Li Ka Shing Library and a metadata librarian, and works on the development of policies, practices and the [...]