Electronic Libraries: Planning to Establish an Academic Electronic Library


Abstract in English

Libraries and information centers are characterized with continuing changes and successive developments, notably the emergence of electronic libraries, which were an inevitable consequence of the evolution of information and communications. This has led to radical shifts in the mass conservation and processing of information, and in the media-borne, and changed the forms of organization and information exchange, but no doubt that was a positive impact in providing appropriate information services and advanced to the beneficiaries. Electronic libraries has made it possible to provide the services that could not be provided and carried out by traditional libraries, and because of the features that are unique to the electronic library, making the presence of great importance both to the users, librarians and publishers.

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