چکیده:
Because digital libraries (DLs) are treated as determinant information centers,
libraries especially their managers are thinking about how phenomenon "DLs" can
be effectively managed. So, the present article aims to provide managers of DLs
with an approach. To do this, two main pillars considered in definition offered by
Digital Library Federation namely staff and users are debated. Accordingly, some
skills, instructional programs and qualities needed both for users and staff of DLs
with which they can interact more effectively with new technologies such as DLs
are included in the text. In fact, this paper emphasizes on educational function of
DLs and thus offers an approach for its implementation from a managerial
standpoint.
خلاصه ماشینی:
This has been published by Digital Library Federation (as quoted in Raitt, 1999): ”Di gital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff [librarians], to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that the y are readil y and economicall y available for use by a defined communit y [audience] or set of communities ”.
, 2006; Patel, 2001), security management (Arms, 2002) and so on, the present article aims to provide managers of DLs with an approach which examines two main pillars included in definition offered by Digital Library Federation namely staff and users.
Along with the formal education offered by the library departments and their professors, managers of DLs should be well aware that "DLs need digital librarians" (Hastings and Tennant, 1996) and it is expected that some staff, on the one hand, have graduated before 1990s -namely before the emergence of DLs and related technologies- and on the other hand, all staff whether familiar or unfamiliar with theory and practice of DLs had better learn needed skills of working in these libraries through continuing informal educations.
, 2005; Chang and Hopkinson, 2006; Choi and Rasmussen, 2006; Deegan and Tanner, 2001; Marion, 2001; Zhou, 2005), it can be declared that in order to meet job requirements of DLs, totally, librarians should have skills and features included in tables 1 and 2, respectively.
As Ashoor, 2000 (quoted in Isfandyari Moghaddam and Bayat, in press) posits that "developing information literacy skills should be the main goal of the library's instructional programs", he defines it as "understanding the tools necessary to conceptualize, retrieve, evaluate and manage information".