Digital Collections in Academic Libraries

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.