Archive for May, 2004

The Roles of Digital Reference in a Digital Library Environment

Saturday, May 22nd, 2004

The Roles of Digital Reference in a Digital Library Environment, Lankes, R.D. (2004). In Zhan Furui (Ed), The Proceedings of Digital Library – Advance the Efficiency of Knowledge Utilization (pp. 262-274). Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing House, Beijing, China.

http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/Publications/Proceedings/DigRefWP.pdf

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“Digital Reference Research: Fusing Research and Practice”

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

The article, entitled “Digital Reference Research: Fusing Research and Practice” presents the Digital Reference Research agenda developed as a result of a three-day symposium at Harvard University. It shows how the research agenda ties directly to digital reference and library practice and argues that research and practice must connect on a meaningful level in order to prevent unusable research and untestable practice.

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