Thus, the distinction between the technical and reader service departments will decline and eventually they may even be integrated. On networks, everyone is both author and publisher. Information can be delivered instantaneously all over the world - information creation and flow is much faster than ever before. The flow of information is so quick that it becomes a great challenge for the library to plan a strategy of collection development on the Internet. With the digital library, many resources are in digitalized formats.
Access is interactive and very dissimilar to print access.
Therefore, library holdings are transformed from containing printed, single media to containing hypermedia as main sources. When a library process the acquisition of materials, processes include typing, sending, checking in and claiming materials ordered to include the materials as part of the library's holdings. These work procedures are usually both manual and offline. With the ability to retrieve information from distant sites and distribute it immediately on the network, the library can make an order online and allow vendors to offer data online immediately. One example of this is the BNA's Bridges to Blackwell System.