DIGITAL LIBRARY

Digital Library

The terms, which have been in vogue at different times, include paperless library, virtual library, and electronic library online library, desktop library, and polyglot library, library without boundaries and more recently digital libraries.The term Digital library in broad sense is a computerized system that allows users to obtain a coherent means of access to an organized electronically stored repository of information and data.

Digital Library Importance

• Implementation of I.T. environment

It is a important factor in the respect of library information

technology, through the melding of computer technology with

communications, digital imaging, and full-motion video and

sound, can be a powerful ally to improving education and thus

improving skill for grain full employment. But in order to do

this libraries and libraries will have to change. Changing the

traditional to digital is improving the education and skill.

• Speed

As we go from traditional to digitalization concept we

feel that the speed becomes faster the speed factor may be

realized in respect of working of office worker or students/

user working.By digitalization the user retrieve information

faster.

• Accessing Power

Digital Library provides accessing power to user. In

digitalization environment the user access the latest information. User can interact with larger no of datasheet. The user also accesses the worldwide information through digital library.

• Supporting Power

In Digitalization concept, The Digital library support

wider range of material. It also increases the ability to deal

with large datasheet.

• Space power

The Digital Library increases the space power. It means

that we are making portable system for materials. As the

Technology increases the portability also increases AS example

like compact disk, DVD system minimize the larger data and

store it larger. So there is no storage problem.

• On line reference Books

Educational software enhances the knowledge experience

if it is designed well and developed by export group. The quality of digitized reference materials today is a huge leap.

Forwarded From even the best leering programs available in

1990s it is due to the contribution of I.T. and the advances in

computer hardware and software. Lighting fast microprocessors,

large memory, super quick high-resolution video display cards,

sophisticated soundboard. Which deliver digital audio and the

storage medium the CD ROM which holds as much data as

450 high density diskettes materializes the provision of reference facility for thousand of multi volume encyclopedia and other materials. The convergence for the digital audio, video and accelerated processing speed has led to the computing concept 20 denoted by the term multimedia. Most of the online reference books are designed to take advantage of these new technologies By offering faster and more colorful animation, audio narrative and feedback, video clips and often huge variety of activities in one program software publishers and developers are creating some truly ground breaking learning aids.

Digital Library - Limitation

• Cost Limitation

To establish a digital system in the traditional Library

system is costlier in initial stage.

• Skill person

If we want to work in digital system we need skill person

in respect of working and maintaining

• Law effect

In today some people wants to secure their publications,

matters etc. that why they copyright their publications. Whenever a user will try to copy some matters, he will suffer from copyright law. There are some other laws like cyber law, which affect the digital library system.

• Effect of Technology

In today advancement becomes in the both area like soft

ware and hardware. The digital library wholly dependent on

telecommunication and computer. As new technology comes

in the market the digital system should change or adopt that

technology.

• Security problem

When our digital system is connected to Internet the

major problem is the security to prevent the unauthorized

access and to prevent the information from virus is the major

task in digital system.