You might be wondering what is a digital library? Digital libraries basically store materials in electronic format and manipulate large collections of those materials effectively. Digital Libraries are brand new forms of multimedia information retrieval systems, information institutions, or information systems that support the use, creation, and search-ability of digital content. Digital libraries are repositories of electronic texts, images, and other materials. Digital libraries are generally found on the Internet, although large collections of remotely-accessed CD-ROMs could also be considered a digital library. Materials in a digital library may have been "born digital" or they may have been digitized using a scanner.
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