Information society: digital libraries as objects of digital cultural heritage

The article presents the results of the study, dealing with the conceptual foundations of digital libraries, carried out by the analysis of foreign and national legislation. It is emphasized that considering the advances in information technology, and ubiquitous distribution and access to the Internet, digitization of books, journals and other documents, making them in digital format straight away has led to the emergence of digital libraries, which gave rise to the accumulation of digital cultural heritage. The author outlines the urgent problems related to the lack of common terminology, legal recognition of electronic libraries as objects of digital cultural heritage.