The Role of Online Libraries in Advancing the Study of Uzbek Culture

Abstract

Online libraries have changed how studies and current issues about Uzbek culture are approached in an unprecedented way. Cultural materials which heretofore were only available in the conventional libraries can now be accessed by both the local and the global patrons through the Internet. Here, the author focuses on the processes and implications of enhancing the research of Uzbek culture in the online environment making use of digital books, articles, photos, audio and video, and other rare sources. These new forms of media have made it possible for scholars, learning communities, and the general populace to access cultural materials that would otherwise require travelling, prohibitive cost, or resources that are not affordable in libraries. In order to do this, this research will examine how internet libraries promote the distribution of books, films, musical and artistic works about Uzbekistan and its people, history, and other areas that define the country in question For better understanding of this cultural phenomenon, special attention is turned on problems of cultural mantle availability through emerging technologies such as e-libraries/e-resources for traditional libraries’ staff members in Uzbekistan. Its supplements with international web resources emphasizes the potential of combining physical and virtual mediums of cultural material promoting the study of culture of Uzbekistan.