Professional paper
Digitized Metropolitan’s heritage : diverse roles of Zagreb City Librarys’ digital collections
Jagoda Ille
; Knjižnice Grada Zagreba, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ismena Meić
; Knjižnice Grada Zagreba, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
In order to provide online accessibility, the wider use of the analogue collections in the information society, as well as preservation of precious resources and storage of digital content, Zagreb City Libraries have initiated a series of digitization projects. A selection of valuable and rare works of cultural heritage from Zagreb City Libraries’ holdings have been digitized and made available online, at the Digitized Zagreb Heritage web site. The web site and the entire published content represent one of the first steps towards the Zagreb City Libraries’ own Digital Library. The paper intends to identify the roles of the digital collections among other network services provided by our metropolitan library in the web environment. The basic objectives mentioned at the beginning (accessibility, usage, and preservation) are supplemented by some less apparent ones: providing better services to patrons, economizing by reducing digitization on demand, providing services to and communicating with remote users, minimizing storage space, promoting other digital and analogue library services, educating the patrons/librarians about new technologies, entertaining, supporting scientific and personal history research, providing additional information for tourists, etc. In the context of providing better and more complete services to the users of our digital collections, based on the research of the existing solutions, we have tried to design an acceptable, interesting and functional presentation interface for these contents. As we share our heritage with communities outside our city, state, and even region boundaries, we must not forget some of the cooperation related roles, such as contribution to the European and wider common cultural space, virtual reunification of materials that had been dislocated or virtual aggregation of dispersed material pertaining to a specific subject ‒ roles that our digital collections have the potential to fulfill.
Keywords
digital library; digital collections; Digitized Zagreb Heritage
Hrčak ID:
106558
URI
Publication date:
28.1.2013.
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