The author demonstrates that the problems of library process automation have been put forward in 1970s. He refers to book by Gerard Salton (1927–1995) (well-known and designer SMART – System for Mechanical Analysis Retrieval Text): «Dynamic information processing» (1973). In his monograph, reviewed libraries predicted their future as electronic institutions; he also proposed model efficient col...

Digital libraries are large, organized collections of information objects. Well-designed digital library software has the potential to enable non-specialist people to conceive, assemble, build, and disseminate new information collections. This has great social import because, by democratizing information dissemination, it provides a counterbalance to disturbing commercialization initiatives in ...

purpose: the aim of present study was the comparative evaluation of content and support quality of iranian academic libraries websites’ and provide recommendations to improve them.methodology: this study is an applied research and methodology was comparative survey. data gathering tools were three checklists extracted from relevant studies which compare with 5 foreign library websites, and thei...