E-libraries in Canada and Sloveniia

This investigation provides an up-to-date and required comparative analysis of the development of e-libraries in the world. The experience of implementing and developing electronic libraries in Canada and Slovenia are analyzed thoroughly. Today, digitalization of libraries is an urgent problem formany researches of local and foreign scientists. It is concluded that the implementation of e-libraries in the Ukraine is relevant and in demand. The analysis of foreign experience will allow to develop methods of implementation of e-libraries and to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of their puttinginto practice.The aim of the study is to conduct comparative implementation and development of e-libraries in Canada (Canadian Electronic Library,Ontario Colleges Library Service, Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature, Library and Archives Canada, Canadian Libraries – Internet Archive Canada) and Slovenia (The Digital Library of Slovenia, Digital Library of the University of Ljubljana, Cooperative Online Bibliographic System and Services). By carrying out an analysis of the use of e-libraries in Canada and Slovenia, it is worth noting that the electronic library is a collection of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, finding and using information. In this sense, they are a continuation and expansion ofstorage and retrieval systems that deal with digital data of any type. That is, a so-called database contains information objects in different formats. Thebasic idea of creating e-libraries is to get users to access restricted documents (rare books and manuscripts, photo albums, theses, archives, which areabsent in most libraries), providing access to exists information only in electronic form, giving users opportunities to work with large volumes of electronic documents and providinginformation to users with full-text databases in electronic mode.Many e-libraries in Canada and Slovenia used to provideusers with information in electronic form, providing users access to documents with restricted access, a wide range of digital content in the fields of science, arts and culture and other services.