Digital Contents:
Specific Areas and Resources
KhristineVera V. Alcance
Digital Resources
 those resources whose deal with both born digital and
digitized materials which can be either accessible from
library in house database or from the internet.
AREAS IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Digital Storytelling
 a short form of digital media production that allows
everyday people to share aspects of their life story
Digital Archiving
• process of backup and ongoing maintenance as opposed
to strategies for long-term digital preservation.
AREAS IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Espresso Book Machine
 integrated, automated book-making machine that
prints, binds, and trims—on demand—high quality
paperback books .
Digitization Centers
 Prospective partners that wish to contribute contents
that have well-established digitization programs.
AREAS IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Library Commons
 study room includes a display screen with computer
input and a white board wall.
Quiet Areas
 area designated for quiet study.
AREAS IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Wire and Wireless Classroom
 Electronic classrooms are available for instruction and
training that requires participants to have access to
individual computer workstations
Collection Maintenance
 with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the
files and media contained in the library collection
RESOURCES IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Electronic Resources
 created digitally in the day-to-day service of the
organization. Includes e-books, e- journals and others.
Multimedia Resources
 Medium of instruction with the use of an audio / visual
presentation.
Videos
Multimedia
Music
•YouTube
•Incompetech
www.youtube.com www.incompetech.c
•TeacherTube
om
www.teachertube.c •Podsafe Audio
om
www.podsafeaudio.c
•Prelinger Achives om
www.archive.org/
details/prelinger
•MIT World
http://mitworld.m
it.edu
•Nature
www.pbs.org/
wnet/nature/
category/video/
•TED Ideas
www.ted.com/
index.php
Images
•Google
Images
•Flickr (As a
bonus, you can
annotate the
images on
Flickr)
www.flickr.co
m
Interactive
media
All
Commercia Learning object
l vendors repositories such
(such as
as:
Harvard
•Jorum
Business
www.jorum.ac.uk
Publishing) •MERLOT
www.merlot.org
Open courseware
sites such as:
•MIT
OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.ed
u
RESOURCES IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Digital Imaging Tutorial
 Collaborative effort in building library collections.
Digital Library Research
 Maintain lists of projects and project descriptions as well
as small collections of technical papers, typically authored
by staff
RESOURCES IN A DIGITAL LIBRARY
Digital Metadata
 describe digital data using metadata standards specific to
a particular discipline.
Annotated Bibliography
 a list of citations to books, articles, and documents.
References
 http://www.wdl.org/en/faq/
 http://library.uoregon.edu/general/study-spaces
 http://www.lib.umich.edu/libraries-and-departments
 http://search.library.cmu.edu/interlibrary/
 http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/almanacs/index.ht
ml
 http://www.infolibrarian.com/digital.html
THANK YOU
and
GOD BLESS =)