The evolution of Virtual Library and Digital Library as the subject watter of Brazilian periodicals articles publishied from 1995 to 2000 is the scope of this paper. It analyses 33 articles presenting methodological aspects addopted to plan and create virtual and digital libraries, the collection development in face of this new reality, the impact on the professionals and their libraries; the Internet libraries statistics and the bibliographic production about virtual and digital libraries. It evaluates the production of the period, the authors'productivity, kinds of authorship, number of the bibliographic references by article; types of documents and the language of the documents. It points out as a result that there is no convergence about the concept of Virtual, Digital, Eletronic and Multimedia Library and the authors concerns about the methodological aspects related to the planning and creation of virtual and digital libraries.
Virtual library; Digital library; Scientific production; Bibliographic production; Periodicals
