The concept of new media in libraries

Cultural institutions such as libraries, archives, and historical societies house remarkable collections of cultural artifacts. materials must be preserved, protected and provide responsible stewardship for the materials, and to the best of their ability, provide continued long-term access.

New media technologies constitute of networks or hybrids that can be expressed in physical, social, aesthetic and electronic terms. The concept of remediation in libraries has been widely applied in the transformed libraries (Digital libraries).

Digital libraries are centers  with a focused collection of digital objects that can include text, visual material, audio material, video material, stored in electronic formats (as opposed to print, or other media), along with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the files and media contained in the library collection.

• Digitization:Digitization in library environment includes taking a physical object or analog item, such as books, a tape recording, a map, a collection that is rare or unique, fragile materials, and taking photographs of the item, and transferring the photographs to a digital medium. The negatives or prints are scanned into digital format such as a JPEG (1,400 pixels) and even larger, TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, 2000 pixels). Digital files are imported into, and managed with the use of software programs. Digital files may be read, compressed, transferred and retrieved over computer networks then made accessible and viewed on computer monitors. 

• Remediation: example: Microsoft Encarta and Grolier's electronic encyclopaedia are in electronic from and they improve on printed encyclopaedia by providing not only text and graphic but also sound and video and they feature electronic searching and linking  capabilities.libraries can adopt this and provide links to this sites, acquire digital materials or reformat their print materials to electronic form 
• Interactivity : new media in libraries has changed the way people interact and communicate, it grows from one way to interactive communication which allows feedback in every communication process, it has provided ease in access and people can access the library irrespective of time and geographical distance in this case it prevents barriers of centralized control to flow of information. this is achieved through the Facebook pages of various libraries, blogs, twitter among others