Digital Libraries vs. Traditional Libraries

Traditional libraries have been developing for hundreds of years. In addition to providing new services, digital libraries should continue to carry out important functions of our current libraries:

• collection
• organization and representation
• access and retrieval
• analysis, synthesis, dissemination of info
• Other important characteristics:
  • catalog helps access, has metadata
  • translations, and cross references aid access
  • permission required for access, which may differ among patrons