Digital Libraries

The field of education, including higher education, is passing through dramatic changes in the wake of introduction and popularization of concepts like global networking, paperless society, digital and virtual library and universal communication and database systems. Information Technology (IT) has changed the shape of today's libraries in a big way responding to new social and economic demands. The impact of IT has led to a paperless society, digital libraries and virtual libraries. With the availability of computers capable of computing at very high sp eed and having large disc storage space, it is possible to digitize and store information in the form of high quality graphics, colour images, voice signals and video clips at a relatively affordable cost. Today, Internet has become a most efficient channel for dissemination of information, having clickable access through web browsers to the vast amount of multimedia information stored on millions of web servers across the country.