Nowadays, the chances of searching web pages on the Internet, then accessing the information ones need are increasingly expanding among people, and that is rather becoming daily information seeking behavior among them. This article studies the current situation of digital collections available on library web pages. It covers US Library of Congress, British Library, National Library of Australia, National Library of Canada for national libraries, and University of Washington Libraries, University of California Berkeley Library, University of Michigan Library, Harvard University Library, Stanford University Library for university libraries. Classifying the collections as 1) born digital materials, 2) digital formatted materials, and 3) information available on the web pages the author describes the current situation on each. The some issues involved in digital collection building are also mentioned.
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