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1. Digital Building of "Information Society"; 1.1. "Information Society" infrastructures; 1.2. Improving citizenship through digital technology; 1.3. Digital libraries and IR skills; 1.4. Digital and information skills; 1.5. Individualized paths in digital libraries; 2. Innovations; 2.1. Digital libraries: a crucible for innovation; 2.2. Definitions and typologies of innovation; 2.3. The innovation movement regarding library computing; 2.4. Innovation regarding library interfaces; 3. Digital Library Collaborations Focused on Technology; 3.1. Collaborative models inherited from W3C recommendations; 3.2. XML technologies and semantic descriptions; 3.3. OAI-PMH: unqualified Dublin Core data production and sharing; 3.4. Catalog FRBRization: from an obsolete model of collaboration focused on documents to a collaboration model focused on data; 4. Re-engineering Digital Libraries While Focusing on Usages; 4.1. Possible usages, actual usages; 4.2. Web technologies and anthropocentric perspectives; 4.3. User experience and cross-cutting information retrieval; Conclusion; Digital libraries and marketplaces: same technological signature; Digital and info-documentary skills; Research development versus innovation; Technological stability and prevalence of usages; Bibliography; Index.

The digital libraries emerging from "information societies" no longer concern only digital technodocumentary devices that are patrimonial, cultural or scientific. Social networks and high-audience merchant sites share the same technologies, heterogeneous digital resources, offer identical user experience (UX) capabilities, and are born within the same communities of designers and engineers. These technology-induced recoveries nourish a usage fantasy that irrigates a transformation movement of innovation where use and user occupy a central place. The evolution of digital libraries does not constitute a disjointed set of singular innovations. They are the result of an innovation movement that gives them a specific dynamic and produces two major effects: empowering users and increasing their number. This book highlights and study that the combination of these effects is likely to have a positive impact not only from an economic point of view but more broadly from a social point of view.

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