Course: Digital library I
ECTS credits:
Language: Croatian
Duration: 1 semester
Status: compulsory
Method of teaching: 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of seminar. The students present some issues of e-resources material and digitalisation projects.
Prerequisite:
Assessment: oral exam

Course description:
A contemporary definition of a book. Research. The definition of an electronic publication and basic terms characteristic for e-resources: publish, post, edition, new edition, publisher and distributor of e-resources. Definition of a digital library. Definition of a hybrid library. E-resources deposit. Bibliographic control. Usage of e-resources. Numbering systems of e-resources (ISBN, DOI, URN). Digitalisation as one form of constructing digital library. Criteria for resources selection. Projects for digitalising stocks of big libraries. Libraries as publishers of digitalised works.

Course objectives:
The students shall learn the basics of electronic resources in libraries, especially in comparison with the printed resources, and digital library operations.

Quality check and success of the course: Quality check and success of the course will be done by combining internal and external evaluation. Internal evaluation will be done by teachers and students using survey method at the end of semester. The external evaluation will be done by colleagues attending the course, by monitoring and assessment of the course.

Reading list
1. Borgman, C. L. Od Gutenbergova izuma do globalnog informacijskog povezivanja, pristup informaciji u mrežnom svijetu. Lokve : Benja ; Zadar : Gradska knjižnica, 2002.
2. Horvat, A. Nacionalna tekuća bibliografija u službi Univerzalne bibliografske kontrole. // Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske 43,1/2(2000), str. 1-8.
3. Živković, D. Elektronička knjiga. Zagreb : Multigraf, 2001.