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Synopsis We live in a time when libraries will se their missions expanded as they continue to collect and preserve analog materials while at the same time participating wholeheartedly in the digital revolution. With multimedia technology we have image libraries, audio libraries, digital video libraries and web libraries. Libraries are suing web to create gateways to what has been termed a massive library system, where people can roam through the electronic equivalent of book stacks via a desktop workshop. The electronic equivalent offers the ability to integrate text with charts, graphs, photographs, sound, video and other forms of multimedia. The present book describes the roles and responsibilities of world wide web in digital libraries. It enable the readers to understand the process of electronic dissemination of information, the impact of web on libraries and the changing responsibilities of library professionals. Besides library professionals, students and teachers of library and information science will find this work of utmost use.