http://libraryjournal.com/community/891/Digital+Libraries/42850.html Roy Tennant's articles @ Library Journal Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:31:55 -0500 http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422278.html On September 5, 2006, over 250 libraries in the Georgia consortium, PINES, began using a next-generation integrated library system they wrote from scratch. http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6422278.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413458.html Librarians have every right to wonder what their future holds in an age when Google is digitizing entire research libraries and our users routinely go to Internet search engines for the things they formerly used libraries. http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413458.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403655.html In my very first LJ Column, I wrote, “Only a very small fraction of the millions of print items currently held by the world's libraries will ever be in digital form” (LJ 11/15/97). http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6403655.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6396388.html Recently, I've had reason to reflect on a disturbing situation in digital library development. http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6396388.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6388331.html Regular readers of this column know that I’ve often taken library catalogs to task for being the “wrong solution” for most user needs. http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6388331.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6379559.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6379559.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6370259.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6370259.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6359900.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6359900.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349052.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6349052.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341887.html http://libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341887.html