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The library community has used several different phrases over the years to denote this concept-electronic library, virtual library, library without walls-and it never was quite clear what each of these different phrases meant. "Digital library" is simply the most current and most widely accepted term and is now used almost exclusively at conferences, online, and in the literature. For computer scientists and software developers, collections of computer algorithms or software programs are digital libraries. For database vendors or commercial document suppliers, their databases and electronic document delivery services and digital libraries. for large corporations, a digital library is the document management systems that control their business documents in electronic form. For a publisher, it may be an online version of a catalogue. and for at least one very large software company, a digital library is the collection of whatever it can buy the rights to, and then charge people for using.

Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur. Howrah 711 103

Last Update: 9th September 2010