Article in Library Progress (International) · January 2020 doi: 10. 5958/2320-317X

Smart Library: Need of 21
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content and the content can be stored permanently. In addition to materials that are acquired from 
outside, university libraries also collect a lot of materials published locally
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. Most university libraries 
have special collections of local materials such as theses and dissertations, research reports, 
examination papers, conference papers, newsletters and seminar papers, journal articles by academic 
members of staff
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. ICTs have made it possible to provide access to these resources in full text, 
accessed via the institutions’ intranet, extranet or over the Internet. This is being done through 
Institutional Repositories (Ws). The most commonly used software's are, Dspace, Eprints & Fedora. 
Library Portal 2.0 Service 
A library portal is an interactive interface to access library resources and services through single 
access gateway, combining the OPAC, circulation, subscribed database, electronic journals/books and 
catalogue etc, function of integrated library management system with additional tools and dialogue
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It can be defined as “a combination of software components that join the user experience of 
discovering and accessing information”
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. Library portal meets the individual needs of the users and 
the portal is now the standard interface to generate library resources and services through single 
access and management point for users
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The basic concept behind this to provide an interactive 
interface where information seekers can access their desire information, and interact with all resister 
users of the library just like library forum.
 
E-database Service 
An electronic database is a collection of electronic searchable resources; basically they are in two type 
of database: 
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Indexes or bibliographic databases 
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Full-text databases. 
Indexing or bibliographic database is known as indexing and abstracting services provided by the 
libraries. In indexes the whole indexing information about the resources are available in multiple 
formats (including multidisciplinary search). In bibliographical database a short description (abstract) 
of the content (eg. Article) are available along with indexing information
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. Full-text database provide 
the all inclusive services as mention as above, but also include the full-text of the articles, allowing 
you to read it online, or download it for offline reading, which includes access to thousands 
of journals, as well as e-books, newspaper articles; reports; pictures; and increasingly e-books