Accessing of electronic information in the digital libraries: Role of user interface

Technology influences the economic and social aspects of information sources and services. The development in the Information technology (IT), Internet and the web, have brought noteworthy changes in information handling, organizing, managing, consolidating, repacking and dissemination. Digital libraries providing Internet and the users are from different psychological, educational and social backgrounds; the usage of digital libraries is varying from user to user which entail the need of best user interface. This paper describes the user interface design principles and its need to the digital libraries for the effective information retrieval.