A digital library, also commonly called an electronic library, is a vast repository of documents and files in categorized digital form, available over the web or on hardware storage devices like memory disks, flash drives, etc. In these libraries, the access, preservation, and propagation of information take place in the digital form. Depending on the kind of library to be accessed, a user can have videos and audio files, soft-copies of documents, images, e-magazines, and more as the constituents of a digital library.
Digital libraries are the result of the commingling of several disciplines, including data management, document management, library science, image processing, information systems, AI, and human-computer interaction. Because of these technological disruptions, several existing libraries are being reconstructed as digital libraries, which provide abundant information to help fulfill a users’ fundamental objective of learning about a subject.
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