Computer Science Homework Help

Pick one of the digital libraries below. If you would rather, you may pick a digital library that is not on the list.

Look through the site and write an analysis of the digital library using the questions below as prompts.

Purdue – http://www.lib.purdue.edu

Yale – http://www.library.yale.edu/

MIT – http://libraries.mit.edu

Washington State – http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/

Penn State – https://libraries.psu.edu/

University of Illinois – http://www.library.illinois.edu/

University of Georgia – http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?Welcome

University of Nebraska – http://libraries.unl.edu/

New York Public Library – http://www.nypl.org/

Can you find:

– Library organization

Can you find the Library Mission statement?

Is there a separate mission statement for the digital program?

Is there a separate digital library or digital collections department?

Can you find a list of active digital project?

-/Roles and staffing

Can you identify digital collections/digital library staff?

Can you determine the percentage of staff involved in the digital program?

– Collections

Are digital collections integrated or separate?

Can you find “collections”?

Can you determine the “goodness”?

Can you find a collection statement (a paragraph or two that describes the holdings)?

– Services

What digital services are offered?

Are services available for patrons?

– Architecture

Can you identify separate systems for the collections such as archival collections, images, maps, etc.?

Is there a high level search function?