An examination of massive digital libraries' coverage of spanish language materials: Issues of multi-lingual accessibility in a decentralized, mass-digitized world

Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Culture and Computing, Culture and Computing 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 10-14

  Weiss, Andrew ^a   James, Ryan ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Collection development; Massive digital libraries; Multiculturalism

Indexed keywords

INTERNET;

ACCESSIBILITY; COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET ARCHIVE; MULTICULTURALISM; OPEN LIBRARIES; PARTIAL VIEWS; SPANISH LANGUAGE; UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84893238250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CultureComputing.2013.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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