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The recent emergence of digital libraries has transformed the manner in which educators, students, and the public access educational materials, resources, and related information for course study and intellectual enrichment. While web-based materials have been part of net craze for over a decade, students and scholars have viewed their dubious content with suspicion. Digital libraries seek to legitimize web-based content and bring a degree of credibility to its resources. In the area of distance learning and education, trustworthy online resources become an important element to the learning process.
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Impagliazzo, J., Lee, J.A.N., McKnight, S., McLaurin-Smith, N. (2003). Digital libraries. In: Davies, G., Stacey, E. (eds) Quality Education @ a Distance. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 131. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35700-3_12
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