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Should we just send a copy? Digitisation, usefulness and users

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Melissa Terras
Melissa Terras*
Affiliation:
Department of Information Studies, Henry Morley Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

Over the last decade, most libraries, archives and museums have undertaken some form of digitisation project, making digital surrogates of their collections available for users. We are now at a stage where we must ask: how are these resources being used? Why are they used, and by whom? Does digitisation live up to its rhetoric of improving scholarship, and improving access?

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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 2010 , pp. 22 - 27
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2010

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