“Managing location information of mobile nodes is an important issue in mobile computing”.Digital libraries provide online access to a vast number of distributed text and multimedia information sources in an integrated manner [2]. Digital library data include texts, figures, photographs, sound, video, films, slides, etc. The size of the data and information repositories available is enormous. The data sources are distributed and heterogeneous and digital library services should provide a uniform interface to make the information transparently accessible. “Digital library users include not just users on a fixed local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), but users with mobile computers and wireless links too”. Provision to access digital library services through wireless networks is required by a wide range of applications from personal to research to customized business computing. For instance, archeologists working on remote locations may need access to library data related to their discoveries. The queries are complex and involve processing, navigating, searching, and presenting of distributed, heterogeneous repositories of multimedia data.” The goal of this paper is to clearly identify the implications of the possibility of accessing digital libraries through wireless networks”.
