A Study Of Online Local Literature Resources

Local literature resources while its paper forms are difficult to acquaint and acquire since its regional and rare characteristics now can be easily accessible to its online forms. Through Internet, people can share a lot of different information. Now national and local governments have been sharing the consciousness that information on regions should be put online so as to propagandize local culture and promote local development. A series of "put online projects" such as E-government, E-enterprise, Agriculture Informationalization, and National Cultural Resources Sharing Project have led to more and more local information showing online.Online local literature resources is becoming an organic part of local literature resources system. Acquainting, exploiting and utilizing it will become an important part of information service. This paper gives an all-round concern on online local literature resources. The author hopes that through her endeavor more people can give concern on the information resources of this sort and study it so that online local literature resources can be utilized effectively and efficiently to promote local culture and local development in deed.The first part of the paper discusses the basic issues about the definition, scope, investigates the distributions and conditions, concludes the core websites, analyses the differences between Chinese and other countries' online local literature resources. On the end of the first part, the author summarizes the types, characteristics, achievements, and problems of online local literature resources.The second part studies the integration of local literature resources since such resources distribute on a large different websites and have abundant contents as well as plenty of repetition on contents which enhances the difficulty for user to access certain information. Marc form and Metadata can be used to describe online local literature resources; Strategies for subject navigation and multi-database search can be used to access certain online local literature resources spreading on a large area.The third part investigates and analyses the availability for the utilizations of local literature resources, including service policies, service method, and current utilization circumstance. The users of online local literature resources distribute on a broad scope and have demands of different levels. The websites related have an opening policy and user-centered principle as a whole.The last part discusses the elements for the evaluation of online local literature resources and points out some useful method for its evaluation. The elements for the evaluation include authority, system, stabilization, update, accessibility and so on. At last, the paper gives some example on high quality databases and websites of online local literature resources.