Browsing by Author "Gurey, Pritam"

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    The Changing World of E-books
    (INFLIBNET Center., 2009-02-25) Chakrabarti, Avijit; Gurey, Pritam
    The whole chain of e-book publishing is changing as the distinction between author, publisher, reader or user and library are being hazy. In this context there are many issues that need to be addressed, developments that are admirable and emerging trends that need to be understood. These include tracing the development from print to e-book; various publishing models for ebooks; various distribution models for e-books, emerging and genuine document formats and file formats used in e-book; new file sharing technologies; authoring and reading e-book; policies and legislation; fighting with piracy and concept of fair use; e-book business models; growth and impact of the e-book market in both developed and developing countries and the latest e-book trends and future technologies. In addition to this changed context, librarians are facing several other challenges in providing information, which are discussed in this paper.
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    Digitization, Strategies & Issues of Digital Preservation: An Insight View toVisva-Bharati Library
    (2010-05-11) Das, Tapas Kumar; Sharma, Ajay Kumar; Gurey, Pritam
    The digital preservation is of utmost importance in order to maintain the mission of preserving a record for future use. Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. This paper explores an initiation towards digitization in order to preserve the rich collection, mostly rare documents at Visva-Bharati Library. The authors tried to highlight the need of digital preservation, strategies and issues of its related as well as digital preservation activities carried out by Visva- Bharati Library with intention to preserve the rare documents of the library.