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As many observers have pointed out, the term 'digital library' means different things to different people. For librarians, the word 'library' conjures up an institution that manages one or more collections. For computer scientists, the institutional asp

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As many observers have pointed out, the term 'digital library' means different things to different people. For librarians, the word 'library' conjures up an institution that manages one or more collections. For computer scientists, the institutional aspect plays a minor role, if any. Instead, this group is more likely to focus on the collections themselves – digital collections – and on the enabling technologies through which these collections are built and searched.

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D Levy 2000

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology