Muddiest Point #1

In lecture Dr. He mentioned that Elsevier's ScienceDirect could be considered a digital library. As someone who not only uses databases, but also trials them for purchase (and then purchases them), it had never occurred to me that databases themselves could be considered digital libraries. But looking at slides 17-21 from the first lecture, ScienceDirect does meet the definition. I guess I wish more time had been spent in the first class focusing on databases as digital libraries, if only because it takes some of the mystique and the unknown out of the term. After all, if databases are digital libraries then we've all used them before, if only on the patron side, so we're all a little familiar with them, even if we didn't realize it.