title: Database technology in digital libraries
abstract: Database technology advancements have provided many opportunities for libraries. These advancements can bring the world closer together through information accessibility. Digital library projects have been established worldwide to, ultimately, fulfil the needs of end users through more efficiency and convenience. Resource sharing will continue to be the trend for libraries. Changes often create issues which need to be addressed. Issues relating to database technology and digital libraries are reviewed. Some of the major challenges in digital libraries and managerial issues are identified as well
keyphrases: database technology digital libraries information accessibility digital library projects end users resource sharing managerial issues data quality interoperability metadata user interface query processing