Virtual Librarian Project

Abstract of Virtual Librarian Project

The Virtual Librarian Project provides reading suggestions based on the NY Times Bestsellers List. Users are able to get a description of each book on a list and find similar books by the author. Users can also look for books by the author.Through this project, we can get a lot of information about books like bestsellers and the reviews from different websites and by this data, one can easily select the desired book. Bestseller results from the New York Times, User Reviews from Google Books, User Reviews from Goodreads, List of books by the author from Google Books.

Most of the Libraries today, offer a wide range of on-line services to their users. And, now, the internet and web technologies are not the new things to any academician hence, it is the time for a Library to be virtual and develop its on-line presence in order to further facilitate and enrich the educational processes. In this direction, Virtual Libraries provide a new way of serving the new generation users of the libraries. Virtual libraries are the new vision of libraries of the future. This paper provides an overview of a Virtual Library System. 

It narrates purpose, features, functions, design and development of a Virtual Library and Virtual Library Environment. Impact of ‘Virtual Library’ on ‘Lifelong Learning’ has also been emphasized. It also enumerates principles of development of Virtual Library Collection and advantages of Virtual Libraries.

The current static shape of libraries, usually based on the compilation. and storage of more or less fixed documents and indexing diagrams, is now under change. Libraries are now taking a new direction, heading for dynamic virtual libraries which use efficient and flexible mechanisms to locate, organise, accede to and, above all, personalise the content and services they develop.