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- The latest rapid changes in the information environment have brought out the outstanding existence of new technologies, whose main aim is the support, the exploitation and the distribution of libraries’ and archives’ content. The creation of digital libraries contributes to this undeniable fact. The main goal of this article is to present the structure and the development of digital libraries and especially those which contain newspapers collections. First of all, the importance of newspapers in the information society will be broadly reported. Moreover, the reasons for the necessity of newspaper digital libraries and the relationships between the libraries and the newspapers will be given. The basic steps and the materialization approaches of a specific newspapers digital library will be pointed out. Furthermore, current applications and usages for the development of digital content will be broadly mentioned.
Finally, an international recognized programme for newspaper digital libraries in the Utah University in USA will be introduced. Some interesting procedures of this programme that will be pointed out are the creation’s steps of the certain digital library taken from the University in collaboration with computing enterprises, which offered their technological support for the accomplishment of the project. In addition, the history of the programme, the kind of the software that was used, the organization of the University site for the online access to the digital newspaper collections, and the future of the programme will come up. Consequently, some conclusions concerning the application of the programme will be set out, which compose the basis of a fruitful speculation for the information community. These conclusions can lead, both the public and the private libraries, to foresee the necessity of the organization and the management of their content through the creation of digital libraries.
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