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        In modern societies all activities of the people are organised through institutions. These social institutions make a person part of the society. Each institution serves one or few needs of the society.        A library is a social institution and it has been created to fulfill all the needs of the society.  Certainly libraries play an important role in  society:                     1.  Communication of knowledge:    For the growth and development of a modern society, communication of Knowledge has become increasingly important. It is the key raw material and the libraries are the access point to it.   A library is concerned with the communication of information and knowledge and helps in communication through user friendly devices by providing repackaging of information.    2. Information centre : We are living in an infor...

Five Laws of Library Science: Dr.Shiyali Ramamitra Ranganathan conceived the five laws of library science in 1924.The statement embodying these laws were formulated i.e. the laws took the final form in 1928 and a detail account of these laws and their implication were published in the form of a book in 1931 by Bombay Asia Publishing House.   The five laws of library science are: 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader his/her book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. Library is a growing organism. Implications of Five Laws: First Law: Books are for use               The first law embodies an elementary principle and all the other laws of library science are based on the first law.            In Ranganathan own words the implications of the first Law of library science are : a) Location of the Library :  Location of the library should be the one which is...

Information Society is an economic, social or industrial infrastructure, made up of a varied multitude of individuals who may or may not be from different ethnic groups.

       The Digital Library is a later stage of electronic library. When an electronic library started procuring E-journal and other similar kind of publications and access is over the Web,then it is termed as  "Digital Library ".       Digital library has been defined by a UCLANSF social aspects of digital libraries workshop as "Digital libraries are a set of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, searching and using information".         In digital library,high speed optical fibers are used for LAN and the access is over the WAN and it provides a wide range of internet based services i.e. audio and video conferencing  etc. the collection of a Digital library is in digital form and is usually served over the World Wide Web. Characteristics of digital library:      Cleveland (1998) describes some characteristics of digital libraries that have been ...