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Digital Resources
Librarians today still need to select, acquire, and organize quality information resources for their patrons. A new challenge is that much information is published digitally as well as, or instead of, in print. Electronic journals, newspapers, and magazines are common and many books, including student textbooks, are available in electronic form as e-books (electronic books that are available for download onto e-book readers). Technological developments supporting the collection, management, and preservation of digital materials, the description of digital resources have given rise to the phrase "digital library" to describe this new world of library science.
Ebooks-Advantages
- Readers the ability to increase the font of the book.
- Able to read in the dark with the backlighting.
- Those who travel find the e-book easier to carry than most paper books.
- e-books have the ability to hyperlink to a dictionary and to create bookmarks.
- Those with disabilities might like the ease of use.
- The e-book’s hyperlink ability might help people learn a language by linking a translation to a foreign language work.
- The voice e-book is a new innovation that will read books aloud. It may help those with learning disabilities because they could listen to the e-book while reading along with a book.
