g. "Remember to read this article before writing essay"; (7) the ability to save a list of search results to the personal area and also to edit a saved search; (8) Ability to add individual resources contained within search results to their personal area; (9) Personalized current awareness - searches that can be re-run automatically at a specified time; (10) the ability for the user to share their resource collections with other system users by assigning read and perhaps also edit rights to other users; (11) Ability to personalize the look of their personal area - the colors etc.; and (12) Where relevant, the ability to change the title/name of the personal area, collection names in personal area, names of resources in personal area etc." (Pearce and Berko, nd) Finally, the customization functionality enables the library staff in tailoring the system to meet the specific needs of both the library and its users.
The work of Hampson (1999) entitled: "The Impact of the Hybrid Library on Information Services Staff" relates that the barriers and challenges to development of a Hybrid Library include those as follows:
1) costs;
2) infrastructure;
3) academic staff;
4) users;
5) publishers; and 6) institutional.
The work of Gesellschaft (2003) entitled: "The Hybrid Digital Library" states that in recent years there has been a growth in the use of "information technology especially through the development of so-called virtual museums model. The idea of the virtual museum which seems to be asserting itself, is, in fact, the idea of the digital clone of the real museum, accepting all of its structural features. To have meaning and utility, the "virtual" museum of the web should rather be constructed with a radically different configuration from the 'real' museum. In cyberspace the real museum should constitute only the point of departure and return of journeys that are confined neither to the internal perimeter of the museum, nor to the same typology of items or the same discipline or genre to which it relates. The visitor should be permitted explorations not only of objects, but also of ideas and persons, of places and events, of books and documents, whenever this information is preserved. The transition of cultural heritage in the cyberspace has thus to be conceived as the creation of a totally new architecture of knowledge: a meta-museum/library/archive, with no walls nor physical separations. A totally different construct from the way in which cultural heritage is arranged in the real world." (Gesellschaft, 2003) Stated as key words in this process are those of:
1) hybridization;
2) re-composition; and 3) systematic enhancement. (Gesellschaft, 2003)
All of these are used in context of "...the network of meaningful connections among the items of cultural heritage." (Gesellschaft, 2003) According to Gesellschaft (2003) "In the cyberspace the documentation and communication strategies...
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