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DIGITAL AND ONLINEDIGITAL AND ONLINEAPPLICATIONSAPPLICATIONS
IMD252 DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER 
 
 
3.1 What is Database?3.1 What is Database?
‘a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that isaccessible in various way’ 
(The New Oxford Dictionary)
‘a database generally provides details of bibliographic referenceswhich the searchers uses as keys in order to consult the original source literature to obtain the detailed knowledge he is seeking’ 
(Computer in Library Management, 2003)
In 1968, Dr. Ralph Halsted Parker of University of Missouri, developed agraduate level class in the masters degree program titled ‘Library InformationSystem’. He went on to identify LIS as not only “automating” existingprocesses within libraries (such as circulation, cataloging and so forth) butalso including access to materials not held by the library but available inelectronic form.FACTS...
For example, the National Library of Medicine was experimenting with thedevelopment of what is now MEDLINE.
 
 
3.2 Library System3.2 Library System
The application of computing systems in libraries has been a subject of interest to professional librarians for more than 65 years. More recently,libraries have sought to implement increasingly complex solutions that involvedistributed networking and access to remote information resources.
To date, the developments have included:
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Integrated Library System
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Online Databases
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Web-Based Resources
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Digital Library Collections
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e-Books and e-Journals
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