1. A Survey of Digital Library Education
Tefko Saracevic & Marija Dalbello
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

2. Introduction
Education is dependent activity (linking of education to digital library research, practice, organization, and commerce? )
Survey to examine the rationale and current orientation for digital library education
Identify emerging models
Suggest model for digital library education

3. Outline Why teach digital libraries? rationale
What to teach about digital libraries? What is a “digital library”? content
What is taught about digital libraries? current applications
How were digital libraries taught? context
Where does that leave us now? conclusions

4. Why teach Digital Libraries? Rationale
new form of managing the knowledge record of post-industrial society
infrastructure in place (digital technology and networks)
new approaches to sustaining scholarly communication
DL research and development funded
Combination of social trends and technology
is a push for educational efforts

5. What to teach about digital libraries? Content
What are digital libraries?
Lesk (1997)
Arms (2000)
Borgman (1999, 2000)
DLF (Digital Libraries Federation, 1996+)

6. What are Digital Libraries?
collections with "associated services" (Arms 2000)
persistent collections of digital works "readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities" (definition of Digital Libraries Federation (DLF))
collections "constructed, collected and organized, by (and for) a community of users," and functional capabilities of digital libraries to "support the information needs and uses of that community" (Borgman 1999, 2000)

7. What to teach about digital libraries? Content
What to teach about digital libraries? Content choices
systems, networks, and technology; collection and resources in various media; representation, organization, and operability; storage and searching; functionality, access and use; institutions and services; and user communities and related applications

8. What to teach about digital libraries? Content
What to teach about digital libraries? Educational choices
technology, resources, organization, access, institutions, and use, or a mix thereof

9. What is taught about digital libraries? A survey of applications
Web survey
website analysis of 56 ALA-accredited programs
survey
questionnaire (listserves: ASIS member list, JESSE, ACM SIGIR, Humanist Discussion Group)

10. What is taught about digital libraries? A survey of applications
Web survey: inclusion / integration
Inclusion: ( %)
Independent DL courses ( %)
Combination of Independent DL course and DL content integrated in other courses (8 - 15%)
Content integrated in other courses (no independent DL course) ( %)
Other (content integrated with continuing education) (1 - 2%)

11. How were digital libraries taught? Context (connecting areas)
Areas of application (for 34 programs):
tools (13)
environment (4)
objects (3)
combined (14)

12. How were digital libraries taught? Context (connecting areas)
Areas of application (for 34 programs):
tools (technologies and technology based processes)
environments (the contexts in which digital libraries operate)
objects (representation, structure and life cycle of documents in various formats)
combined (several areas of applications present without any one being distinctive)

13. How were digital libraries taught? Context (connecting areas)
Existing models for digital library education
UBC
Pittsburgh
Illinois
U North Texas
Montreal
Rhode Island
Michigan
California (LA)
Rutgers
California (Berkeley)
KSU
Florida

14. How were digital libraries taught? Context (connecting areas)
Suggested model for digital library education to integrate
Concepts
Content
Creation
Organization
Technology
Access
Preservation
Management
Context

15. Conclusions tunnel vision problem integrationist solution
“the current digital library agenda has largely been set by computer science community and clearly bears the imprint of this community’s interests and vision” (Levy 2000)
integrationist solution

16. Digital libraries and a question of purpose
digital libraries need to be seen in the communications’ circuit of creation, organization, distribution, preservation, and use of knowledge records and knowledge itself
integrate this perspective in educational efforts

17. Directions for Future Research
Expand study to examine contexts of integration of digital library education in LIS curricula (topical) nationally and internationally
to identify contexts of integration and gaps in current offerings
to identify boundary areas and disciplines (areas of growth)
Examine other homes of digital library education beyond LIS (computer science, medical informatics, digital humanities)