Advent of Digital Libraries and Measuring Their Performance: A Review

Abstract

Developments in the field of information technology, like increased capacities of digital storage media, growth of the world wide web and access to internet, sophisticated search engines, fast processing power and reduced computer costs have clinched the case for digital libraries. On the basis of a literature survey, the paper attempts to define a digital library; lists the advantages offered by digital libraries; gives the importance of measuring the performance of libraries against their objectives; gives the progress in developing performance indicators for digital libraries; and lists the difficulties that may be faced in implementing a system of performance indicators.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dbit.25.2.3651