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The rapid development of the internet in the 1990s and its embrace by the library and information community enabled the concept of the digital libraries (DLs), whose function can be defined as the collection, storage and processing of vast information and knowledge into a systemic project through digitalization and the internet, while providing convenient and highly efficient retrieval and inquiry services.The role of a Digital Library is essentially to collect, manage, preserve and make accessible digital objects.

The rapid development of the internet in the 1990s and its embrace by the library and information community enabled the concept of the digital libraries (DLs), whose function can be defined as the collection, storage and processing of vast information and knowledge into a systemic project through digitalization and the internet, while providing convenient and highly efficient retrieval and inquiry services. To this effect, at a minimum, the core services expected of a Digital Library System include: a repository service for storing and managing digital objects; a search service to facilitate information discovery; and a user interface through which end users interact with the digital objects. The introduction of the DL has raised library modernization to a new level with over time. Digital libraries promise new societal benefits, starting with the elimination of the time and space constraints of traditional bricks-and-mortar libraries. Unlike libraries that occupy buildings accessible only to those who walk through their doors, digital libraries reside on inter-networked data storage and computing systems that can be accessed by people located anywhere. At their full potential digital libraries will enable any citizen to access a considerable proportion of all human knowledge from any location. From an access vantage the Internet provides a preview of the possibilities. The role of a Digital Library is essentially to collect, manage, preserve and make accessible digital objects.