Contents

Preface

Part 1

Background

1. A Brief History of Digital Libraries—or, How Did We Get Here?

2. Massive Digital Libraries—or, Where Are We?

3. Major Players and Their Characteristics—or, Who’s at the Party?

4. Impact on Librarianship—or, How Do I Deal with This?

Part 2

The Philosophical Issues

5. The Copyright Conundrum—or, How Is This Allowed?

6. Collection Development—or, How Did I Get This?

7. Collection Diversity—or, Why Is This Missing?

8. Access—or, Why Can’t I Get This?

Part 3

Practical Applications

9. Using MDLs in Libraries—or, To What End?

10. Four MDL Studies

Index