Perception of LIS Professionals towards Digital Libraries and Digital Curation: Managing Digital Collection

Abstract

Digital libraries and digital curation have come to be at the core of the current information environment regarding practice and theory about managing, preserving, and providing access to digital collections. This article accounts for the relationship between digital libraries and digital curation, focusing the discussion on the aspects that connect both in facilitating the availability, integrity, and long-term preservation of digital resources. Digital libraries have been made possible by advanced clouds, artificial intelligence (AI), and big data but they truly transform access to information by eliminating geographical and temporal barriers. Data overload access control complexity digital obsolescence these are some of the challenges that continue to haunt the information society today. Processes in digital curation such as metadata creation format migration and digital preservation address these challenges thereby making sure that digital collections sustain their long-standing usefulness. Successful examples, like Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), show how well they mix technology with curation practices. New trends, such as blockchain, AI-driven automation, and user-centric innovations even virtual reality, will be main forces behind what digital libraries do in years to come. This study ends by asking for same frameworks, working together across subjects, and following green practices to keep digital collections important and easy to reach in a more digital world.