Digital Library: How to Enter Thousands of Households
Recently, the reporter came to the Capital Library. Because it is a working day and there are not many readers, the huge library seems a bit empty. However, the electronic reading room on the sixth floor is full, and even equal seats have become scarce resources, so three or four readers have to stand and wait for the computer.
"The digital resources of the library are very systematic and professional, and it is very convenient to retrieve. It would be better if there were more seats. " A reader waiting to get on the plane said.
In fact, in the library's view, in order to make more effective use of digital resources, we should not only increase the number of seats in the library, but also vigorously develop and build digital libraries. It uses modern network information technology to send library services to ordinary people's homes, so that the public can obtain rich and systematic library knowledge and information anytime and anywhere.
Cultural resources * * * enjoy breaking geographical restrictions.
The total number of public libraries in China is insufficient, and the service resources are few, which is obviously different from the international standards. According to the Standards for Public Libraries of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, there is a library for every 50,000 people. According to the Guidelines for the Development of Public Library Services issued by IFLA and UNESCO, the per capita collection of books in public libraries should reach 1.5-2.5. As of 2009, there is a public library for every 468,000 people in China, and the per capita collection of public libraries is only 0.44 volumes, which is far below the standards of the International Book Federation. According to Li Guoxin, a professor of information management department in Peking University, the existing more than 2,800 public libraries in China failed to get rid of the old model of "one district, one library and one county" and could not form a service system to meet the needs of popular culture.
In the case of insufficient resources in public libraries, emerging media such as the Internet and mobile phones have become important channels for the public to acquire knowledge and information, as well as transmission channels and service channels for digital libraries.
The reporter saw in 20 1 1 China Library Annual Meeting "Interactive Experience Zone of Digital Library Promotion Project" that users can conveniently enter the China comic book digital reading room of Shanxi Library, browse the classic comic books such as "Things Change" and "Driving to Liangshan", and watch the decorative patterns of Ming and Qing furniture in the Capital Library.
Yuan Yisheng, senior vice president of Inspur Group, described the future of digital libraries as follows: "Digital libraries are like banks. With the service card, they can not only withdraw money from all banks, but also enjoy services at home and in the car with computers and mobile phones. "
Existing resources are not enough for interconnection.
However, for digital libraries, it is only a bright future to use simple digital equipment to extract information anytime and anywhere. Repeated construction, different standards and insufficient resources have become "obstacles" to the development of digital libraries.
It is understood that the digital library projects under construction in China, in addition to the national digital library project, digital library promotion project and other national projects, have also emerged a number of commercial digital libraries, and the number of digital libraries built by libraries is more. Lack of unified planning and compartmentalization will inevitably lead to repeated construction, and different standards adopted by various digital libraries will bring many obstacles to the enjoyment of resources. Zhou Heping, director of the National Library, said: "Most of the existing standards and specifications are not operable, and there are no universally accepted and widely used standards in key areas such as long-term preservation of digital resources, which leads to the unavailability or even permanent disappearance of some built digital resources."
In addition, the lack of resources is another dilemma faced by digital libraries. The National Library of China has 6.9 million Chinese books, but in the National Digital Library of China, only 260,000 books are collected, which is less than 4% of the total paper books. The reporter randomly opened some e-books and found that many can only read the first 24 pages of the book, but not many really read the whole text. Without sufficient resources, no matter how fast and convenient the passage is, it is difficult to meet the needs of the public.
Technology is not a problem, it needs top-level design.
Whether cloud computing technology can be used to solve various problems encountered in the development of digital libraries has become one of the focuses of experts and scholars at the 201kloc-0/China Library Annual Conference.
Through cloud computing technology, the servers of independent digital libraries are integrated to form a large-scale "cloud", which is managed and scheduled by the system in a unified way to realize the sharing of resources and services. Experts and scholars believe that the application of cloud computing technology in the field of digital library construction can effectively avoid redundant construction and promote the unification of technical standards. The improvement of information aggregation will make digital libraries cover a wider range and cost lower. Zhou Heping said that the future construction of digital libraries should rely on cloud computing technology to create a ubiquitous digital library "cloud".
In foreign countries, cloud computing technology has been applied in library services. In 2009, the online computer library center (OCLC), headquartered in the United States, launched a cloud computing service-"Web-level collaborative library management service", which connected the collections and services of more than 10,000 libraries around the world and formed a global library knowledge base. Users only need to search once to get all the information of the library. The launch of this service is considered to be an important symbol of the arrival of the "cloud era" of libraries.
In addition to librarians, many information technology enterprises have also joined the ranks of digital library construction. The 20 1 1 annual meeting of China Library has attracted the attention of IT enterprises at home and abroad, such as Inspur, Founder, Intel, Microsoft and IBM. Yuan Yisheng told reporters that the application of cloud computing technology in digital library construction has a mature technical foundation. The most important thing now is to establish a unified standard for resource processing, organization, preservation and service. This requires the state to take the lead, and libraries and enterprises should participate in the formulation and overall coordination, rather than fighting independently.