The Library, as the life blood of higher education institutions, can benefit tremendously from the facilities provided by the ICT. The university libraries can be transformed into a new information services unit, providing electronic cataloguing, electronic on-line. Public access catalogues, electronic acquisition and serials control. Electronic inter-library loan and electronic circulation functions. But it must be realized that many university libraries are yet to take advantages of modern ICT. In some of the first generation universities, digitalization is taking place in many of their libraries and library information networks are being established with connectivity through the university campus network to the Internet. Digitization is an excellent way of providing access to library material, but the technology, in its current state of development, is not adequate for archival preservation. Digitization has proven to be possible for nearly every format and medium presently held by Libraries, from maps to manuscripts, and moving images to musical recordings. The use of hardware and software for capturing an item and converting it into bits and bytes, matched by a quickly developing set of practices for describing and retrieving digital objects, is giving from to the talk of library without walls. Digitization refers to the conversion of materials that were originally created in another format into an electronic form.
