Digital Libraries

 The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) is an alliance of Canadian libraries and organizations that recognizes the growing importance of digital information, and wishes to collaborate to ensure better use of digital information and better service to its users.

 Service providing access to information about Canadian library catalogues, websites, interlibrary lending policies and special collections.

 This guide takes museum managers through the planning and implementation of a digitization project. It covers issues such as non-digital images, new photography, the exposure and care of objects, copyright, and storage.

 A list of online metadata resources with links to their websites.

 The Digital Library Federation (DLF) is a consortium of libraries and related agencies that are pioneering in the use of electronic-information technologies to extend their collections and services. Their website provides information about developing digital collections and managing networked information for the benefit of scholarship, education, and cultural progress.

 D-Lib Magazine is an electronic publication with a primary focus on digital library research and development, including but not limited to new technologies, applications, and contextual social and economic issues.

 Early Canadiana Online is a digital library containing over two million pages in more than 14,000 volumes.

 This document provides a structured overview of over 90 selected technology-based standards, protocols, and document formats that are pertinent to digital library activities.

 This article published in "Computerworld" describes the National Archives of Australia's plans for the preservation of digital records. (November 2005)

 OCLC Online Computer Library Center is a nonprofit, computer library service and research organization whose computer network and services link thousands of libraries worldwide.

 The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

 National Library of New Zealand has developed a Preservation Metadata Schema designed to strike a balance between the principles expressed in the OAIS Information Model and the practicalities of implementing a working set of preservation metadata. (Article, D-Lib Magazine, April 2003)

 The purpose of this metadata handbook is to help national libraries and dataproviders with entering collections into TEL. In this handbook the metadata requirements are specified and tools, input forms and relevant links are provided to lower the barrier of joining TEL and entering collections into TEL.

 This is the home page of the British Library website. Use this site to search their catalogues, order items for research, view exhibitions and link to information resources worldwide. The Library conserves knowledge for future generations. It is the UK's leading research library.

 The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.

 Virtual Reference Canada (VRC) is a free, bilingual and innovative network of libraries, archives, museums, information centres and research institutions that pride themselves on the delivery of professional reference services to all Canadians.