Digital Libraries are emerging electronic entities. Digital Libraries are becoming important information resources. The Digital Libraries concept is appealing because its inherent design combines end-user needs with technology that has the ability to handle vast amounts of complex data. Perhaps most importantly, the Digital Libraries concept has longevity because it provides important services for a society that is identified as being in the process of profound social change including movement towards a knowledge society and the appearance of a weightless economy(1)
Validation of the Digital Libraries concept includes the fact that Digital Libraries are
being established throughout the country, often as distributed environments operating under the auspices of universities and state designated agencies. Internationally, Digital Libraries are also being established, including UNESCO's Memory of the World which has the express purpose of protecting endangered cultural materials(2).
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