New layers of library services: possibilities and challenges of providing e-learning services by libraries

• Authors: Czegledi Laszlo
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Information society has introduced new needs and demands towards libraries. The answer of libraries has been the development and integration of a range of new services into their existing system. When the implementation of a new service fails, the risk is that the provision of the service will be taken out of the scope of libraries. The layers of library and documentation services are supported and enhanced by the digital environment. E-learning materials also constitute a prospective new layer, but their integration and provision by libraries brings up a number of theoretical, technical and financial issues. Several libraries have reported to introduce the provision of e-learning materials, but this practice only means, in most cases, the provision of electronically stored texts free of charge or as a paying service. Thus the issues presented by the author can only be dealt with at the level of theory and cannot offer practical solutions. However, the article encompasses a broad range of issues, from the questions of unified cataloguing of metadata of e-learning materials to the creation of individual e-learning spaces for readers at libraries.

Keywords

EN

E-LEARNING; LIBRARY SERVICES

Discipline

• LIBRARY_&_INFORMATION_SCIENCE: LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE

• Publisher: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Technical Information Centre and Library (BME OMIKK)
• Journal: Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 181-188
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Czegledi Laszlo

• Laszlo Czegledi, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA079213