Digital libraries edit
Digital libraries are libraries that house digital resources, such as text, photographs, and audio. These are curated by digital librarians.[1] In the 21st century, there has been increasing use of the internet to gather and retrieve data. The shift to digital libraries has greatly impacted the way people use physical libraries. Between 2002 and 2004, the average American academic library saw the overall number of transactions decline approximately 2.2%. The University of California Library System saw a 54% decline in circulation between 1991 and 2001 of 8,377,000 books to 3,832,000.[2][3]
In the mid-2000s, Swedish company Distec invented a library book vending machine known as the GoLibrary, that offers library books to people where there is no branch, limited hours, or high traffic locations such as El Cerrito del Norte BART station in California.[4]
- ^ Borgman, Christine L. (2007). Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet. Cambridge: MIT Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-262-02619-2. OCLC 181028448.
- ^ "University of California Library Statistics" (PDF). July 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ "University of California Library Statistics" (PDF). July 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 July 2010. Retrieved May 7, 2022.
- ^ "Library-a-Go-Go comes to El Cerrito del Norte BART Station | bart.gov". www.bart.gov. Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-25.