Model Curriculum Content for Digital Librarianship
Collection Development and Maintenance
- Digital archives; Digital conversion technology; Digital preservation
Information Access and Utilization of Digital Libraries
- Users and uses of digital libraries; Usability and evaluation research; Information behavior in digital libraries
Social, Economic and Policy Issues
- Electronic publishing; Scholarly communication; Copyright issues and intellectual property rights in digital libraries; Costs of building digital libraries; Funding for digital libraries
Professional Issues
- Roles and responsibilities of the digital librarian; Management of digital libraries; Bibliographic instruction (From Spink and Cool, 1999)