Book excerpt: In recent years, libraries have embraced new technologies that organize and store a variety of digital information, such as multimedia databases, digital medical images, and content-based images. Modern Library Technologies for Data Storage, Retrieval, and Use highlights new features of digital library technology in order to educate the database community. By contributing research from case studies on the emerging technology use in libraries, this book is essential for academics and scientists interested in the efforts to understand the applications of data acquisition, retrieval and storage.