Libraries: Principles and Practices for the Digital Age

An online database consisting of digital objects equipped with tools for searching, storing, retrieving and organizing the digital content that is contained in the collection is called a digital library. The collection can include still images, text, audio, video, digital documents or any other form of digital media. Depending upon the retrieval systems, files in a digital library can be stored locally or remotely. Digital libraries can be broadly classified into institutional repositories,...