Books: 

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The first really good book on digital libraries was:

• Michael Lesk, Practical Digital Libraries, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997, San Francisco
  

A more recent and less technical work on digital libraries is:

• William Y. Arms, Digital Libraries, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000, ISBN 0-262-01880-8.
  

A book-length "white paper" is:

• Peter Noerr, The Digital Library Toolkit, 2nd edition, Sun Microsystems, 2000, Palo Alto, CA
  

For a history of many digital library activities through Fall 1993, including reports on key workshops, see:

• Digital Library Source Book, Edward Fox, ed., 1993 http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DLSB.html

From Amazon.com, searching for digital libraries yields many works, such as:

• From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing) - by Christine L. Borgman
• Digital Libraries Philosophies, Technical Design Considerations, and Example Scenarios - edited by David Stern
• Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage and Delivery - edited by Sul H. Lee et al.
• Preserving Digital Information: A How To-Do-It Manual (How to Do It Manual for Librarians, No 93) - by Gregory S. Hunter
• Books, Bricks and Bytes: Libraries in the Twenty-First Century - edited by Stephen R. Graubard et al.
• Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives - by Anne R. Kenney, Oya Y. Rieger

In the related field of Information Retrieval the best set of readings is:

• Karen Sparck Jones and Peter Willett, Readings in Information Retrieval, Morgan Kaufmann, 1997, San Francisco

Some miscellaneous related works include:

• Elsevier, TULIP Final Report, 1996, New York. This booklet was distributed after completion of the TULIP digital library prototype project by Elsevier, and led to their current digital library effort, ScienceDirect (formerly EES).
  
  
• Hermann Maurer, ed., Hyper-G/Hyperwave: The Next Generation Web Solution, Addison Wesley Longman, 1996, Harlow, England
  
  
• Setrag Khoshafian, A. Brad Baker, MultiMedia and Imaging Databases, Morgan Kaufmann, 1996, San Francisco
  
  
• V.S. Subrahmanian, Sushil Jajodia, eds., Multimedia Database Systems: Issues and Directions, Springer, 1996, Berlin