Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage

Dedication.- Figures.- Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Abbreviations.- Introduction.- The Digital Aura in Europe.- Digitization and Coordination of Digitization in the European Cultural Heritage Sector.- Research into the Digital Library: Problems Researched, Outcomes of Research Projects, and New Challenges.- Education for Digital Libraries.- Conclusions and Predictable Future Trends.- Appendix: List of Projects Mentioned in the Book (with Useful Links).- Bibliography.- Author Biography.

Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic received her Ph.D. in Information Sciences (IS) at the University of Zagreb (1991). She graduated in Comparative Literature and Italian Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb (1972). She was the Head of the Department of IS at the University of Zadar from 2007 until 2012, and Head of the Department of IS at the University of Osijek from 2003 until 2007. In 2008 she designed the new Ph.D. program Knowledge Society and the Information Transfer at the University of Zadar and acted as the dean of the program from 2008 until 2015. She is the author of one book, nine chapters in other books, over 120 research and professional papers (in Croatian and English), and over 30 reviews and opinion papers. She edited 25 books and started several series such as Croatian Librarians, Handbooks in LIS, and Advances in IS. She is the supervisor of over 200 diploma papers and 13 MS and 9 Ph.D. theses of Croatian and Slovenian (L)IS students. She was a member of theeditorial board of Information Processing and Management (2003-2008). She is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Documentation, JELISE, and Bibliotekarstvo, Serbia. She was the Chair, ASIST/European Chapter, 2003-2009; Chair, Euclid-European HEI for LIS education and research, 2008-2014; and Chair, Croatian Council on Libraries, from 2013. To the international IS community she has been known as the co-director of LIDA Conferences from 2000-2014 together with Professor Tefko Saracevic. She was/is a member of PC for a number of international conferences in IS. She was PI for two Croatian research projects: Organization, Preservation and Usage of Croatian Written Heritage, 2002-2006 and 2007-2010, and Croatian Written Heritage, 2007âEUR"2012; and started several projects aimed at reorganizing and digitizing rich but neglected collections of monastery libraries in Croatia, Bosnia, and Hercegovina, as well as a project for several library buildings in Croatia. In