Interdisciplinary Programs for Digital Library Education

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Arts – Helwan University

Abstract

This study aims to study the most important features of Digital Libraries
Education and topics which related to it, identifying the meaning of DLE its limits
fields and targets, Determine the scope of the formal Conceptual frameworks for
DLE. Some of the most important results: DLE case took the attention of
specialists since (1999) and till now .and since 2005 there were an increase in
the literature which informed this study, Many reports have stressed the
importance of incorporating interdisciplinary in DLE, The digital libraries merged
as a topic in different courses in (1990) but the concern of make separate
courses with title "Digital libraries" In (1996) and first cooperation effort in
teaching digital libraries was in (1999- 2000). Based on the results obtained, the
authors contend that the future LIS education will consist of more of collaborative
programs with several disciplines including CS, management, culture science,
and so onto build an interdisciplinary Programs for Digital Library Education.

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