Topic > The impact of technology on libraries, museums and archives

INTRODUCTIONThe impact of technology on libraries, museums and archives. Technology has influenced society and its surrounding environment in many ways. In many societies, technology has contributed to the development of more advanced economies (including today's global economy) and enabled the growth of a wealthy class. Many technological processes produce unwanted by-products, known as pollution, and deplete natural resources, to the detriment of the Earth's environment. Technology provides a tool for library service delivery. Technology also shapes and limits how service can be delivered. Effective library construction supports changing service models, changing ways of providing services, and changing technology applications. Various implementations of technology affect a society's values, and new technology often raises new ethical questions. Examples include the rise of the concept of efficiency in terms of human productivity, a term originally applied only to machines, and the challenge of traditional norms. Nowadays, as we can see, we live in an increasingly technological world. According to the growing technological boom, we can see that many industries are trying to create their own collection either from their own business, or from their own company, who will come up with the idea of ​​creating something new for their collection through technology. So, for this very reason, Library, Museum and Archive are not leftovers. Libraries, museums and archives have recently launched projects aimed at digitizing their collections and putting them on the web. The potential for digital projects to present information in new and important ways seems limitless. Currently, however, digitalization remains plagued by confusing regulations, evolving technologies, and d...... middle of paper ......yi different professional groups have taken responsibility. At least for the foreseeable future, each of the professional groups will still have to continue to deal - perhaps predominantly - with their "traditional" materials. There is therefore no reason to suggest that the differences between them will cease to exist and that we must foresee their physical consolidation. However, the argument of this article is that “electronification” can only be adequately addressed by questioning and overcoming traditional modes of territorial demarcation between these groups. To the extent that they deal with the same types of “things” – electronic documents – we must begin to explore the idea of ​​functional integration between the entities – libraries, archives and museums – that are responsible for collecting and managing the public access to them.