The ဒစ်ဂျစ်တယ်စာကြည့်တိုက်ဟူသော termနည်းပညာစကားလုံးမှာ ''digital၁၉၉၄ libraries''ခုနှစ်တွင် was first popularized by theစတင်ခဲ့သည့် NSF/DARPA/[[နာဆာ|NASA]] Digital Libraries Initiative inမှ 1994.ပထမဆုံးရေပန်းစားလာခဲ့သည်။<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fox|first=Edward A.|date=1999|url=http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Oct-99/fox.html|title=The Digital Libraries Initiative: Update and Discussion|journal=Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science|volume=26|issue=1|issn=2373-9223|accessdate=30 April 2018}}</ref> These draw heavily on Vannevar Bush's essay ''As We May Think'' (1945), which set out a vision not in terms of technology, but user experience. The term ''virtual library'' was initially used interchangeably with ''digital library,'' but is now primarily used for libraries that are virtual in other senses (such as libraries which aggregate distributed content). In the early days of digital libraries, there was discussion of the similarities and differences among the terms ''digital'', ''virtual'', and ''electronic''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=digital libraries, electronic libraries and virtual libraries|url=http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chantiny/DigiLib.html|websitetitle=www2.hawaii.edudigital libraries, electronic libraries and virtual libraries|access-date=2016-01-18|deadurl=yes|archive-urlarchiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307071432/http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chantiny/DigiLib.html|archive-datearchivedate=2016-03-07|accessdate=2016-01-18}}</ref>
