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Bibliotecile în era digitală - provocări, mutaţii, perspective-
Libraries in Digital Era - Challenges, Changes, Perspectives -

Author(s): Elena Tîrziman
Subject(s): Library and Information Science, Information Architecture, Electronic information storage and retrieval, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Biblioteca Județeană Mureș
Keywords: digital era; libraries; information; communication; electronic environment;

Summary/Abstract: In contemporary society, the libraries are actively involved in the process of acquisition, collections management, communication, preservation and archiving of the information and documentary resources. In order to fulfill their mission, the libraries must find viable solutions and provide pertinent answers related to the new challenges of the electronic environment, thus integrated to the new information and communication technologies. A series of obviously changes are produced insight library as the major infodocumentary structure, at the level of the processes of librarianship, also services and products offered, finaly at the level of library and information science practitioners, and regarding the users and their information needs. At the present, we are witnessing a real transformation of the libraries from analog to hybrid, and libraries with important digital collections are becoming leading institutions managing information and knowledge who are developing activities in the new context of Information and Communication Technologies.

  • Issue Year: VII/2008
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 13-24
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian