Form and Genre Access to Academic Library Digital Collections
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The goals were to reveal possibilities for improving East Carolina University’s digital collections website, and to stimulate discussion in the metadata community about best practices in form/genre access for library digital collections.Abstract:
This paper provides an examination of how digital collections in academic libraries provide user access to items by form and/or genre. A review of the literature reveals that this is not an area th...read more
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