The library on the age of digital content
From the titles of the sessions and presentations on the IFLA Annual Conferences
2006 Volume 49 Issue 9 Pages 489-498
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2006 Volume 49 Issue 9 Pages 489-498
The digitalization of information sources such as books or audio/visual media of the library holdings is an activity undertaken by many developers of digital library. Many of the digital content created by the developers are made available as part of the Web. The volume and types of digital content are rapidly increasing now. How the development of information technology such as Internet and Web is affecting the activities of traditional library is looked through with the title of each session and the content of each presentation on the IFLA Annual Conferences. On the IFLA 2006 Annual Conference, the title relating the digital content was chosen in many sessions which surpass the mission of traditional library. The titles of the sessions in the IFLA 2006 Annual Conference were greatly changed as compared with those in the IFLA 1999 Annual Conference. It is discussed it would be necessary to look for the change on some parts of the mission of the traditional library.
