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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:37:11 -0500 Diane K. Kovacs wrote:

>I need some advice...what is the difference between:
>Digital Library
>Electronic Library
>Web-Based Library
>
>Is there one?  Is the choice of which word to use primarily a matter of
>choice?
>I've tended to define digital library as a collection of scanned full-text
>materials created from print primary documents.  Electronic library as a
>collection of databases from a variety of sources including Internet and
>Web-Based library as a collection of Web-based resources.  Does this work
>for you?  I've not found any really good clarifications at any of the sites
>that I've visited that call themselves one thing or another.   FYI, chances
>are if you give me lots of help I'll quote your response in my forthcoming
>book (I'm struggling to meet a deadline of 12/15).

Library in the computer related area implies:
(1) A collection of programs or data files.

(2) A set of ready-made software routines (functions, calls, subroutines
or other data) for programmers.

(3) A storage device that handles multiple units of media and provides
one or more drives for reading and writing them.

(4) A named area on a disk that can contain programs and related
information (not files).

(5) The set of publications for a product.

Digital in relation to computers implies the 0s and 1s of data.

I'd change your definition of digital library to a collection of
digitized material created primarily from printed material (could also
include photos and other types of documents).
See http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/R+D/

I see the term Electronic Library being closely associated with
Libraries in general. Closer to an electronic form of the public
library. Most "electronic libraries" are in fact attempts at changing
the way we view public libraries.
See: http://mel.lib.mi.us/main-index.html
http://library.uwaterloo.ca/,
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/carrie_main.html
http://link.tsl.texas.gov/

Your term for web-based libraries gets my vote.

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Gerry Boyd -- gboyd@netcom.com