Core digital resources for small and/or medium size libraries (Academic, Public, Special)

Abstract

Libraries have long been very crucial to our search for information. To this day though google has taken over, libraries still play a very important role in the academic society especially with the provision of study space. Whatever the size of a library is it can be digitized to meet the specified standard. The need for digital librarianship was advocated for during the inception of the internet and the world wide web. It takes a lot of commitment, concerted effort and interest form management, policy makers and the government at large to convert the traditional library and a digital and sustain it as well. Creating a digital library also require the services of experts and technicians within the information technology jurisdiction and the training of library staff. The prolific use of Facebook, high powered servers, high specification smart phones, Instagram, WhatsApp have all brought about the necessity for the digitization of the library.