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The information media constantly manifests itself in various forms, and amongst the numerous manifestations which are being prophesied and which are on their way to becoming reality, are those of digital libraries. Digital libraries have already made their presence felt in the west, and it would not be an exaggeration to state that they would soon be a part and parcel of the way information is accessed in India too. A library is an organisation which is ...
Libraries today are no longer confined within formidable looking buildings and walls housing countless books on various fields of knowledge. The technological revolution that has swept the world has ensured that from stone tablets to paper rolls to printed books, and now digital libraries without walls, the medium and modes of operation of an organisation like a library has indeed travelled a long way. Information today is well accessed through electronic format, ...
Libraries have, from their very advent itself, changed through time from mere storehouses of knowledge to dynamic service centres, opening new vistas and horizons of information available to a large number of people without delay. The medium of information has evolved from clay tablets to proper and to now electronic and optical media of CD-ROMs. The library is no longer a sacrosanct, formidable looking building with countless books and pamphlets--libraries ...