Tuesday, October 27, 2015

This panel provides real-life examples of how they digitized materials to reinvent and expand library and archives services and heightened their perceived value to their constituents. Bicknell talks about how digitized content has been integrated into information services at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Santos-Ong discusses the advantages of digital library services for the Philippine legal system which is a unique combination of civil (Roman), common (Anglo-American), Muslim (Islamic), and indigenous peoples' law. Digitization of this information has facilitated legal research and has improved library services by providing easy and accurate access to the information at the exact time it is needed. He also talks about the available open source and commercial Philippine legal databases and touches on preservation of both digital and hard copy of all of this for future applications.