Discover Digital Libraries

Acknowledgments

This book project took us about three and a half years to complete, starting from the summer of 2012—when we prepared the book proposal—to the submission of the manuscript at the end of 2015. This book is the synthesis of our research and practice in the last 15 years. More important, it highlights research and practice from researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field. At the same time, we would not be able to write this book without the support of family members, students, and colleagues.

This book would have not been possible without contributions from many researchers and practitioners in the digital library field. Iris Xie would like to thank University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for granting her ...