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Digital library

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A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks. In libraries, the process of * digitization began with the catalog, moved to periodical indexes and abstracting services, then to periodicals and large reference works, and finally to book publishing. Some of the largest digital libraries are purely digital having few if any physical holdings.

Types of digital libraries
Advantages
Problems
Academic repositories
Digital archives
Searching
Framework
The future
See also
External links

• general
• national and international archives
• regional and university archives
• book archives
• subject archives
• tools