Digitale Sammlungen – Vision eines Neubeginns

Abstract

The ongoing transformation to digital information and media is combined with a new understanding of collection development and of collections in academic libraries. Due to the running practise electronic books and journals are available as licensed resources, which libraries don't own. Furthermore the increasing subscriptions of licenses the so called e-book and e-journal packages impact significantly on the standardization of library collections. On the whole new questions are rising up: What are the objects, which are part of digital collections? What are the requirements that libraries have to meet in order to provide and to maintain digital collections? What are the benefits of digital collections for researchers and researchers work? Proceedings with digital collections academic libraries have special regard to their original role, which means to collect materials, and they exploit the potential of digital media and tools. From that the claim for a restart of academic libraries is no vision, but comes true. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]