TY - JOUR
T1 - Should we just send a copy?
T2 - Digitisation, use and usefulness
AU - Terras, Melissa
N1 - Special issue: “Plus ça change? Papers from ARLIS/UK &
Ireland’s Cambridge conference 2009: Tradition and transformation”
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Over the last decade, most libraries, archives and museums have undertaken some form of digitisation project, making digital surrogates of their collections available for users. We are now at a stage where we must ask: how are these resources being used? Why are they used, and by whom? Does digitisation live up to its rhetoric of improving scholarship, and improving access?
AB - Over the last decade, most libraries, archives and museums have undertaken some form of digitisation project, making digital surrogates of their collections available for users. We are now at a stage where we must ask: how are these resources being used? Why are they used, and by whom? Does digitisation live up to its rhetoric of improving scholarship, and improving access?
UR - http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/171096/1/Terras_Sendacopy.pdf
UR - http://www.arlis.net/sites/arlis.net/files/alj_abstract_2010_35_1.pdf
M3 - Article
SN - 0307-4722
VL - 35
SP - 22
EP - 27
JO - Art Libraries Journal
JF - Art Libraries Journal
IS - 1
ER -