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Synopsis Digital libraries are no longer fictive, are increasingly providing pertinent solutions for this dilemma. Significantly reducing the growing costs of cataloguing, preserving and making accessible to readers the vast collections of materials which is faced by conventional libraries, digital libraries also offer a platform wherein never methodologies of information development and database management can be maintained. This book aims to delineate for the readers the principles, methods and techniques which are involved in the digital library management  and information development. Taking particular care to discuss the development of online database management and information access in digital libraries, the book is a pertinent text which attempts to comprehend the digital library development and revolution, under-standing the future prospects and challenges associated with it too. In addition it gives space to cover the managerial practices and essential of digital library science.