Concept of Hybrid, Digital and Virtual Library: A Professional Approach (original) (raw)

Generally the working collection of books, documents, newspapers, audio visual materials kept and organized for people to read or borrow in a library. Recent advances in computers storage and processing, communication technologies, e-product, networking and internet uses have brought a revolutionary change in functioning of the libraries and its services. ICT makes a lot of impact on library and it has changed the concept of library where print and paper media are the main components of library system. To meet tremendous information explosion and high demand of information, libraries are now changes in digital library. Due to digitizing the library resources and fast changing technology, a new type of library is came in existence which is called- virtual library. Many of us are always very much confused about such terminology of library. In this paper we try to clear the concept of these libraries terminology in a professional way.