Swamy, H M Chidananda(INFLIBNET Centre, November 10, 2005)
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Abstract:
The success and survival of academic libraries in future will depends on their role to satisfy
the ever-increasing information needs of users. The resources of information available in
the form of digital format becomes a dynamic resource for global sharing more easily than
the knowledge in any form and lends scope for automated delivery mechanism. This paper
focuses the need for the practice of digitalization and digitized information resources and
services at academic libraries to create digital library service environment. Discusses the
objectives and services of digital library. It concludes that in view of the effectiveness of
digitized information resources and services, urges that the academic libraries should go
in for digitized information resources and services for their survival in future.