今日在全球資訊網上傳遞著大量的文字、影像或動畫等不同的檔案格式， 更由於聲音與視訊等檔案轉換技術的快速進展，使得聲音和視訊檔案的編碼和 解碼，變得容易很多。然而傳統的全球資訊網架構，在網路上傳輸聲音與視訊 資料是有其困難的。本文將討論如何建置一個穩定立能整合其他檢索系統的視 訊伺服器。並介紹幾個國、内外頗著名的電子圖書館計畫。

Today? avast amount of text, imageSj graphics? and animation are being hosted and delivered by the WWW . With rapid advances in audio and video technologieSj more and more content will be encoded and delivered by means of audio/video in addition to texts and images . However} conventional Web servers are designed for data services and have no provisions for delivering continuous media such as audio and Vid-e-o . This paper presents the design and implementation of a stable digital video server which could display contiimous-media along with traditional Web services * Finally the paper gives some cases studies of an integrated electronic library; in order to propose an outline for the initiation of an electronic library.