This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th InternationalConference on
Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries ICADL 2016 held in Tsukuba Japan in December 2016. The 18
full papers 17 work-in-progress papers and 7 practitioner papers presented were carefully
reviewed and selected from 71 submissions. The papers cover topics such as community
informatics digital heritage preservation digital curation models and guidelines
information retrieval integration extraction recommendation privacy education and digital
literacy open access and data and information access design.
