The intriguing idea of a digital library, which has developed into its own technology, is certainly fascinating. The phrase "Digital Library" encompasses two related concepts: the technology used for generating, finding, and utilising information in the electronic environment, and the human elements of a community of users engaged in knowledge seeking and production. The evolution of IT tools from machine-readable to machine-understandable methodologies has been remarkable (Web Developers Virtual Library 1999). The discipline of library and information science shows similar tendencies. As Estabrook (1986) noted, "there has been important shift in thinking what librarianship is about," moving away from the view that library education is "about" training librarianship and studying libraries towards the view that library education is "about" information transfer in a wide range of contexts, libraries included.
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