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Information Technology and Application Jovita Kaur, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 10: Classification of Libraries

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
10.1 Digital Library
10.1.1 Digital Library: Concept and Definition
10.1.2 Characteristics of Digital Libraries
10.1.3 Scope of Digital Libraries
10.1.4 Recent Development
10.2 Construction and Organization of Digital Library
10.3 Challenges of Digital Library
10.4 World Wide Web Virtual Library
10.5 Hybrid Library
10.6 Recent Library Developments
10.7 Summary
10.8 Keywords
10.9 Review Questions
10.10 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
Discuss digital library
Explain construction and organization of digital library
Describe challenges of digital library
Explain World Wide Web Virtual Library
Define hybrid Library
Discuss recent library developments.

Introduction

Library science (or Library and Information science) is an interdisciplinary field that applies the
practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other
areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information
resources; and the political economy of information.

Did u know? The first school for library science was founded by Melvil Dewey at Columbia
University in 1887.

Historically, library science has also included archival science. This includes how information
resources are organized to serve the needs of selected user groups, how people interact with
classification systems and technology, how information is acquired, evaluated and applied by
people in and outside of libraries as well as cross-culturally, how people are trained and educated
for careers in libraries, the ethics that guide library service and organization, the legal status of
libraries and information resources, and the applied science of computer technology used in
documentation and records management.

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