Digital Repositories

Digital repositories can make a library a digital library. The libraries collection can be stored digitally. The library is able to move away from print and other microforms. The future of libraries very well could be headed in the digital direction. As a school librarian I would use a digital repository for such things as dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and biographies. I don't think a school library, especially an elementary school could become completely digital. Dictionaries and encyclopedias are good examples of print that could be digitalized because 1)they take up a lot of room on book shelves and 2) they can be accessed easily on a computer. Books such as children's picture books however could not be digitalized. Students and teachers need to be able to hold these books and see the pictures and share them with each other in a classroom, pass them around and take them from school to home and back to school.