Importance of Digital Library in Education

Abstract

During the past recent years, there has been tremendous development reaming the concept of digital libraries, the biggest online platform of knowledge that can be stored and retrieved through online networks. Digital libraries are considered as the most complex form of data systems that associate with the digital document preservation, distributed database management, hypertext, filtering, information retrieval, and selective dissemination of information. This has really overcome geographical barrier offering a wide range of academic, research, and cultural resources with multimedia effects which can be accessed around the world over the distributed networks. The study also highlighted the information on the digital library projects undertaken in countries. This article provides information to the audience on the subject matter in terms of what has been already discovered and explored on the importance of Digital Library and what all can be further explored. The literature pertaining to the studies relating to how digital libraries emerged discussed in this article. The idea is to brief the readers about the concept of library resources shifted into digital libraries with the help of technology and its growth sourced from already existing literature. The contemporary trends reflecting the current state of the library and how it has progressed over time also discussed here.