Program Co-Chairs Welcome

Welcome to Digital Libraries (DL) 2014, the conjoined conference for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL). DL 2014 marks the 14th event of JCDL and the 18th in the TPDL series. JCDL and TPDL are premiere international conferences on the broadly interpreted domain of digital libraries that attract researchers, educators, industry leaders, and students working in realm of digital libraries and associated organizational, practical, social, as well as technical issues. DL 2014, hosted by The City University London, brings JCDL and TPDL communities together with its joint program addressing a broad spectrum of topical areas such as user research, system architectures, collection policies, and specialist domains such as digital humanities, preservation, and scholarship.