Libraries in the World Wide Web connection
Libraries in the World Wide Web connection

Summary/Abstract: The library, seen as a structure that administrates and evaluates the information and documentation resources, is constantly redefining itself. Libraries can present themselves and their products and services on World Wide Web through web pages, websites or portals. The web page is a hypertext or hypermedia type of hyper document, i.e. a resource located in the web space of the Internet. The website consists of several web pages interconnected through hyperlinks. Websites can be created by an organization, a public institution, a private person etc., in other words, a website can be created and developed by any natural or legal person concerned to provide digital content on the Internet. The portal brings together digital content from multiple sites, presenting them on the Internet in a uniform, integrated way, emphasizing the added value of their products and services. We witness a new generation of World Wide Web development - Web 2.0, which has developed and exploited a series of interactive and collaborative aspects of the Internet. The emphasis is no longer placed on the presentation of the information resources but on the relationship between the user and the information. We can talk about Library 2.0, to the extent in which libraries manage to provide appropriate digital content to a differentiated category of users on the web space, in conjunction with a whole series of computing techniques capable to allow interaction and interoperability, customization of interfaces, storage of personal data on the institutional servers, applications that enable collaborative activities and the user opportunity to become creator and publisher of digital content.

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