The Research On Digital Libraries Construction In Chinese Universities

As a symbolization of knowledge organization where the information has been heavily demanded and widely used, the construction of digital libraries in universities attract special attention from governments of all the counties in the world. From the view of infrastructure, the digital library in university has played main role in digital library world. Western countries led by USA have paid special attention to research and investment to digital libraries in universities, which in turn become most active groups in constructing digital libraries. Being pioneer and accomplishing massive achievement, the digital library in Chinese universities has also revealed some problems from current situation of digital library in China.This paper has defined and characterized the digital library, followed by analysis of the characteristics and practices of the digital libraries in all the countries. Then the significance and existed problems of digital libraries in Chinese universities have been figured out. Finally some suggestive strategies have been proposed to improve the digital library construction in Chinese universities.