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International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries

ICADL 2002: Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology pp 452–464Cite as

Information Therapy in Digital Libraries

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This paper reports a pilot study to investigate how good current digital libraries (DLs) are in helping users understand their own needs - a kind of information service or therapy traditionally provided by librarians in conventional libraries. A sample group of DLs and subjects were selected for this study. Findings indicate that this sample group of DLs, though providing some form of information therapy, could be more explicit in guiding subjects to understand their own needs and thus help them to accomplish their goals more effectively. Using this study as a basis, the paper highlights insights on how this important service currently provided by conventional libraries could be more efficiently and creatively provided in DLs.

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  1. Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Yin-Leng Theng

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  1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Ee- Peng Lim , Schubert Foo  & Chris Khoo ,  & 

  2. University of Arizona, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. Virginia Tech, USA

    Edward Fox

  4. University of Mysore, Mysore

    Shalini Urs

  5. IEI-CNR, Italy

    Thanos Costantino

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Theng, YL. (2002). Information Therapy in Digital Libraries. In: Lim, E.P., et al. Digital Libraries: People, Knowledge, and Technology. ICADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36227-4_53

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