Digital libraries: a brief introduction

One advantage of reading the other domain columns before writing this one on digital libraries is seeing how interdependent all these different SIGGROUP threads really are. The rapid development of internetworking technology generally, and the World Wide Web specifically, simply magnifies these interdependencies. So while this column focuses on digital libraries, and not on cooperation, learning, work practices, or knowledge management, I feel that all these areas are mutually interdependent, and that advances in one will be felt in all. I expect that these domain columns will cross-reference each other.