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Research on the development of information infrastructure, the Internet, and digital libraries in Central and Eastern Europe following the end of the Cold War is included here.  Technical and policy issues are addressed and set in historical and international contexts.

Borgman, C. L. (2000). Ch 9: Toward a Global Digital Library:  Problems and Prospects.  From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World. Cambridge,  MIT Press: 225-270.

Borgman, C.L. & Caidi, N. (2000). Developing National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: The Content vs. Conduit Debate. In A. Lass & R.E. Quandt (eds). Library Automation in Transitional Societies: Lessons from Eastern Europe. (pp. 28-44). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Borgman, C.L. (1997). Library automation in Central And Eastern Europe: Progress and prospects. In M. Segbert, K. Steinwachs, & P. Burnett (eds.), International Conference on Library Automation in Central and Eastern Europe. Proceedings of a Conference Organized by the Regional Library Program Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and DG XIII/E-4 “Libraries and Electronic Publishing? of the European Commission. Budapest, 10-13 April 1996. Luxembourg: European Commission, Directorate-General Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research. Series: Libraries in the Information Society.

Borgman, C.L. (1996). Automation is the answer, but what is the question? Progress and prospects for Central and Eastern European Libraries. Journal of Documentation, 52(3), 252-295.

Borgman, C.L. (1996). K?yvt?i automatiz?? ? h??atok. R?zlet a fels?ktat?i vil?banki projekt 1.3 modulj?al kapcsolatos jelent?b?. (Final Report to the Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Education, World Bank Project, Module 1.3: Library Automation And Networks.) Tudom?yos ? M?zaki T??oztat?, 43, 95-104. [Report submitted in English in 1994; published only in Hungarian translation].

Borgman, C.L. (1996). Why are online catalogs still hard to use? Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 47(7), 493-503.

Borgman, C.L. (1996). Will the Global Information Infrastructure be the Library of the Future? Central and Eastern Europe as a Case Example. IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) Journal, 22(2), 121-127. Also translated and published in Hungarian in K?yvt?i Figyel?(Library Review).

Borgman, C. L. (1995). Information retrieval or information morass? Implications of library automation and computing networks in Central And Eastern Europe for the creation of a global information infrastructure. In T. Kinney (ed.), Proceedings the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 32, Chicago, October 9-12, 1995. pp. 27-34. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Summary published as Inform?iokeres? vagy inform?i? mocs??

Borgman, C.L. (1995). International Issues In Access To Information, Or Can The Internet Bring Democracy To Closed Societies With Few Telephones Or Computers? Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference, Burlingame, CA, March. pp. 66-70. New York: Association for Computing Machinery.

Borgman, C. L. (1995). Information retrieval or information morass? Implications of library automation and computing networks in Central And Eastern Europe for the creation of a global information infrastructure. In T. Kinney (ed.), Proceedings the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science, 32, Chicago, October 9-12, 1995. pp. 27-34. Medford, NJ: Information Today. Summary published as Inform?iokeres? vagy inform?i? mocs?