Digital library use social practice in design and evaluation / [electronic resource] :
edited by Ann Peterson Bishop, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.
- ix, 341 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Digital libraries and electronic publishing .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : digital libraries as sociotechnical systems / D ocuments and libraries : a sociotechnical perspective / Finding the boundaries of the library without walls / Ecological perspective on digital libraries / Designing digital libraries fo r usability / People in digital libraries : multifaceted approaches to assessing needs and impact / Participatory acti on research and digital libraries : reframing evaluation / Colliding with the real world : heresies and unexplored questions about audience, economics, and control of digi tal libraries / Information and institutional c hange : the case of digital libraries / Nanc y A. Van House, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Barbara P. Buttenfield -- David M. Lev y -- Cather ine C. Marshall -- Vicki L. O'Day and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Christine L. Borgman -- Gary Marc hionini, Catherine Plaisant, and Anita Komlodi -- Ann Peter son Bishop ... [et al.] -- Clifford Lynch -- Philip E. Agre. Transparency beyond the individual level of scale : convergence betw een information artifacts and communities of practice / Digital libraries and collaborative knowledge construction / Flora of North America project : making the case [study] for social rea list theory / Susan Leigh Star, Geoffrey C. Bowker, and Laura J. Neumann -- Nancy A. Van House -- Mark A. Spasser.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrar y affiliated libraries.
Digital libraries -- Social aspects. Digital libraries -- Planning. Information technology -- Social aspects. Bibliotecas digitales -- Aspectos sociales.