A Research on Modern Digital Libraries in Tamil Nadu with Special Reference to Design, Development and Impact

Abstract

Today we live in a world economy and one in which great distances can be covered much more  swiftly than 100 years ago. In the same way, the communication of information has moved beyond  print and now comprises digital text and images. Libraries, as traditional benefactors of data and  knowledge, are undergoing particularly challenging situations in transitioning from ownership of  materials to accessing knowledge and information from networked, electronic sources, from  providing users with the information that they are looking for to training users how to find the facts  for themselves, and from moving from an environment that has changed slowly over the preceding  150 years to one in which change is necessary, constant, and innovative. The historical backdrop of digital libraries is rich and shifted in light of the fact that the "digital library" idea isn't so much  another thought as an advancing origination of contribution from numerous panels. Digital libraries  are co-operative structures with sorted out accumulations of data. As of recent times, there has been a  rise of subject-based digital libraries with connectivity to the Web. Numerous individuals have added  to the thought, and everybody appears to have their differences as a priority. Digital libraries have  developed from apparently static to increasingly unique and intuitive vaults of client contributed  assets with various applications. The structure of intelligent classifications, including digital  libraries, is regularly encouraged by what innovation makes promising. In a client run  configuration, structure give emphasis to clients, their errands, and necessities. Since digital libraries  mean various things to various individuals, the structure of digital libraries is, accordingly, ward of  the impression of the drive/functionality of digital libraries.