Summary of Lecture for Chapter 1

1. Digital Library is type of library consists of (most of the it)digital resources (digital collection and services) for remote users.

2. Other definition of DL is a collection of digital objects) including text,audio, and video,along with methods for access and retrieval and for selection, organization and maintenance of the collection that only in computer processable form.

3. People still prefer to use book rather than ebook because of portability, reliability,familiarity with the medium, low cost and ability to annotate(edited.marked)

4.Publishers, distributors, booksellers and libraries played an important roles in popularizing electronic publication

5.The similarity of digital materials it is all in the computer readable form.

6. OCR (Optical Character Recognition is a software that recognizes the shapes of the letters of the alphabet and produces a file exactly the same as one produced by a word processor used to type in the same text.

7. graphical Manipulation is refer to condition where digitized images can be stretched, compressed, re-sized, recolored and rewrite on the image. E.g of software used to have this capabilities is Adobe Photoshop.

8. OPAC in the digital world used to facilitate users to retrieve digital information easily

9.CD technology is a technology used to store and disseminate digital information to remote users

10. One of the most important contributions of the web technology has been the creation of digital libraries, which allow users to access digital information resources from virtually anywhere in the world.

11. Digital collection are digital surrogates, non printable objects and digital artifacts that cannot be distributed in printed form.

12. Resource Center is a systematic organized collections of carefully and purposely selected information that are used to provide appropriate and timely information, program and services to pupils and teachers of the schools in order to strengthen the method used and opportunities.

13. Digitization projects required someone who know how to manage project resources (people,cost,time and assets) effectively and efficiently to the stakeholders