International Journal of Recent Advancement in Engineering & Research

Volume 1, Issue 1; December -2015

A REVIEW ON DIGITAL LIBRARY

Anandita Trivedi1, Rubina Tyrewala2
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SMW Engg College, Guntur
Abstract: This white paper is intended to describe the technology trends indigital libraries, discuss
key issues involved in digital library imple-mentation, and provide profiles of some of todays
leading digitallibrary programs. As one of the leading technology providers tolibraries, museums,
and the educational community, Sun Micro-systems has played a key role in the evolution of digital
librariesaround the world and is pleased to support their continued develop-ment.
Sun Microsystems will continue to support the library and museumcommunities as they explore new
and evolving information tech-nology (IT) architectures. Sun is also committed to fostering
thesharing of best practices among institutions and increasing the cross-fertilization of commercial
and library/museum-specific solutions.
Keywords: Library,Digital.
I. INTRODUCTION
A digital library is a special library with a focused collection of digital objects that can include text,
visual material, audio material, video material, stored as electronic media formats (as opposed to
print, microform, or other media), along with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the files
and media contained in the library collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope,
and can be maintained by individuals, organizations, or affiliated with established physical library
buildings or institutions, or with academic institutions.The digital content may be stored locally, or
accessed remotely via computer networks. An electronic library is a type of information retrieval
system.[1,2]
A digital library is a collection of documents in organized electronic form, available on the Internet
or on CD-ROM (compact-disk read-only memory) disks. Depending on the specific library, a user
may be able to access magazine articles, books, papers, images, sound files, and videos.[3]
With digital libraries, an individual can:
Gain access to the holdings of libraries worldwide through automated catalogs.
Locate both physical and digitized versions of scholarly articles and books.
Optimize searches, simultaneously search the Internet, commercial databases,and library
collections.
Save search results and conduct additional processing to narrow or qualifyresults.
From search results, click through to access the digitized content or locate additional items of
interest
Digital Library is used in field of[4,5]
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.
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.

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Advantages of the Digital Library

1. No physical boundary
2. Round the clock availability:
3. Multiple accesses
4. Low In Maintainance Cost
5. Need little physical Space
6. Information retrieval is fast and accurate
Disadvantages of the Digital Library
1. Copyright law may violate
2. finding the right material for a specific task becomes increasingly difficult
3. Digital library will need high band for transfer of multimedia resources
4. Speed of access is depend on internet speed.
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TRADITIONAL & DIGITAL LIBRARY

Traditional Libraries
Digital or Electronic Library
Print collection
All resources in digital form.
Stable, with slow evolution
Dynamic and ephemeral
Individual objects not directly linked
Multi-media and fractal objects
with each other.
Flat structure with minimal contextual Scaffolding of data structures and richer contextual
metadata
metadata.
Scholarly content with validation More than scholarly content with various validation
process
processes
Limited access points and centralized Unlimited access points, distributed collections and
management
access control
The physical and logical organization
The physical and logical organization may be virtually
correlated.
One way interactions
Dynamic realtime dialogue
Free and universal access.
Free as well as fee based.
Technical knowledge is not required
Technical knowledge is required.
Physical Infrastructure cost is high
Physical Infrastructure is not required.
Multiple access is not possible
Multiple access is possible.
Searching process is very tedious and
Searing Process is accurate and easy.
time consuming
Content in only one format (Text)
Content may in multiple format (Text,Sound)

III.
CONCLUSION
They might make research easier for scholars. They might ease the budget pressures on libraries.
They might solve our increasingly urgent preservation problems, or they might help libraries extend
collections into new media. But perhaps their most important advantage would be their ability to help
society, to make information more available, raise its quality, and increase its diversity. Can digital
libraries do that? This will depend on how we fund, regulate, and manage digital libraries, the new
communications infrastructure and the new technologies which drive them.
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ies.pdf
4. http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~mbolin/trivedi-diglib.htm
5. http://lesk.com/mlesk/follett/follett.html