Libraries and archives in developed countries play a very significant role in advancing the information industry to encourage lifelong learning and help build communities healthier and happier. They are no longer passive custodians and preservers of books, but have evolved to become facilitators of information and lifelong learning opportunities with an emphasis on service, identifying user needs, and communicating solutions. They offer access to broad information growth, engage individuals, families and groups to learn together, having an informal educational environment and not only support people in developing skills and knowledge, but also lift people's spirits and build confidence , inclusive in that they build bridges between individuals at the local level and at the global level of knowledge. Over the last decade, libraries, museums and archives have undergone their revolution. They are not moving towards educational progression but also towards economic, social and personal progression. They have built new approaches to build the new capacity of a lifelong learning framework by engaging people, technologies and inspiring thoughts in bridging the gap between generations of people. Today the role of libraries, archives and professional librarians is changing around the world. Public libraries play the most important role globally in helping to close the information gap by providing free access to information and communication technologies, particularly the Internet, and by creating the intention to provide free public access to reading material, with the goal of educational enlightenment and better well-being of people. The rapid growth of information nowadays is a challenge for the operations team in the library...... middle of paper ......ow, the library has a long tradition of resource sharing and networking , the nature of which shows how the sharing of information occurred. Going beyond explicit knowledge, libraries must develop a web portal that serves selective and relevant sources of knowledge and information, both on-site and remote, and in all formats. Libraries and archives in the future could consider three publishing models for digital archiving formats such as: i) self-publishing – by individual authors or their parent organizations. There is no guarantee that they will have the aptitude or resources to maintain long-term availability. The archives (such as WWW and FTP sites) created by them on the Internet will be subject to frequent changes and will usually have a short lifespan, as is already evident to anyone trying to access materials placed on the Internet more than a year ago.
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