30-01-2010, 07:25 AM
Since today more and more complementary information is available in different electronic media there is an increasing demand for the integration of traditional digital library systems and multimedia systems. which is an advanced meta system and enhances existing digital library systems or retrieval systems by additional storing and indexing of user-defined multimedia documents, automatic and personal linking concepts, annotations, filtering and personalization. Freely available library catalogue, giving access to the merged online catalogues of many major countries, as well as increasing numbers of specialist libraries. Library web service is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals...).