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Digital Libraries as Scocio-Technical Interaction Networks' American Memory Project as one example of it

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2003, 20(4), pp.91~111
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2003.20.4.091
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : November 14, 2003
  • Accepted : December 5, 2003
  • Published : December 30, 2003

Kyung-Hee Joung 1

1Indiana University in Bloomington

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ABSTRACT

This paper shows that digital libraries can be understood through STIN models which emphasize interactions among components in networks. The enrollment strategies in the American Memory make human and non-human factors interact. Specifically, this paper articulates that the relationships between users and collections, between users and staff, and between users and users are closely linked through the strategies. Observing the linkages among these components, this paper found that the enrollment processes not only draw users to the American Memory, but also alter roles of components and creates new roles and players for them. The alterations of roles and the resulting changes of relationships among components mean that digital libraries lead to transform the grounding of knowledge works in a society.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.