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    A digital library is a collection of digital objects that can include various media formats, stored electronically rather than in print. Digital libraries can vary in size and scope and can be maintained by individuals, organizations, or institutions. They provide means for organizing, storing, retrieving, and accessing files locally or remotely via computer networks. A digital library aims to comprehensively collect, manage, and preserve digital content for long-term access by targeted user communities.

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    A digital library is a collection of digital objects that can include various media formats, stored electronically rather than in print. Digital libraries can vary in size and scope and can be maintained by individuals, organizations, or institutions. They provide means for organizing, storing, retrieving, and accessing files locally or remotely via computer networks. A digital library aims to comprehensively collect, manage, and preserve digital content for long-term access by targeted user communities.

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    Digital library

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    Digital library
    An electronic library (colloquially referred to as a digital library) is a focused collection of digital objects that can
    include text, visual material, audio material, video material, stored as electronic media formats (as opposed to print,
    microform, or other media), along with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the files and media contained in
    the library collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope, and can be maintained by individuals,
    organizations, or affiliated with established physical library buildings or institutions, or with academic institutions.
    [1]
    The electronic content may be stored locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. An electronic library is a
    type of information retrieval system.
    In the context of the DELOS
    [2]
    , a Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, and DL.org
    [3]
    , a Coordination
    Action on Digital Library Interoperability, Best Practices and Modelling Foundations, Digital Library researchers
    and practitioners and software developer produced a Digital Library Reference Model
    [4][5]
    which defines a digital
    library as: "A potentially virtual organisation, that comprehensively collects, manages and preserves for the long
    depth of time rich digital content, and offers to its targeted user communities specialised functionality on that
    content, of defined quality and according to comprehensive codified policies."
    [6]
    The term digital libraries was first popularized by the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative in 1994.
    [7]
    These draw heavily on As We May Think by Vannevar Bush in 1945, which set out a vision not in terms of
    technology, but user experience.
    [8]
    The term virtual library was initially used interchangeably with digital library,
    but is now primarily used for libraries that are virtual in other senses (such as libraries which aggregate distributed
    content).
    A distinction is often made between content that was created in a digital format, known as born-digital, and
    information that has been converted from a physical medium, e.g. paper, by digitizing. It should also be noted that
    not all electronic content is in digital data format. The term hybrid library is sometimes used for libraries that have
    both physical collections and electronic collections. For example, American Memory is a digital library within the
    Library of Congress.
    Some important digital libraries also serve as long term archives, such as arXiv and the Internet Archive. Others,
    such as the Digital Public Library of America, seek to make digital information widely accessible through public
    libraries.
    [9]
    Academic repositories
    Many academic libraries are actively involved in building institutional repositories of the institution's books, papers,
    theses, and other works which can be digitized or were 'born digital'. Many of these repositories are made available
    to the general public with few restrictions, in accordance with the goals of open access, in contrast to the publication
    of research in commercial journals, where the publishers often limit access rights. Institutional, truly free, and
    corporate repositories are sometimes referred to as digital libraries.

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