1. Digital Libraries, a micro and macro perspective of databases
Menno Nijssen
LM Information Delivery

2. Definition…
‘Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities’.
A working definition of digital library [1998]
Digital Library Federation

3. Complexity

4. ’An organized collection of resources for a specific group of users’

5. Databases

6. Macro

7. Content, tools & discovery, the KNOVEL case.
- Extending the platform with tools in stead of content (SD)
Making content more interactive (datasets in textbooks, interactive chemical reactions in reference works)
As a publisher saving your platform and identity from discovery tools and Google.

8. Micro
Content micro (niche market) – new products focussed on a single set of content or audience or competence (Atmaglobal) Micro wannabe and becoming macro (oneclickdigital) Back to micro (MGH)

9. What do we do with databases?

10. LM & Databases RBDigital Zinio Indieflix Recorded Books McGraw-Hill
Access Engineering
Access Medicine
McGraw-Hill E-Books Library
Cengage Gale
Gale Virtual Library
Insights products
Global Issues
IHS
Jane’s
Country forecasting
Industry forecasting
Pressdisplay
International newspapers online
Cabi
Infotree
Vetmed resource
Pharmaceutical Press, Palgrave – MacMillan, Credo Reference, AMS, Sage, Bridgeman Group, E-book vendors.
Springer, Elsevier, John Wiley, Ovid, Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Brill, AMS, Thomson Reuters.

11. New and diverse content

12. Main goals for LM.
Service all databases Bring new content to the market. Look at all segments such as schools, academic, institutional and public libraries Focussing on local content and looking for opportunities to broaden our digital offering by hosting it.

13. Our own
Infastructure
Knowledge, competence and customers

14. Kiitos and any questions?