Planning, Designing and Developing of Digital Libraries and Digital Preservation
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2014-09-25
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INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
Abstract
Digital libraries represent the meeting point of many disciplines and fields, including data management,
information systems, information retrieval, library sciences, document management, the web,
image processing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Due to these technological
invasions majority of libraries are getting converted into digital libraries which provide suitable
help to fulfill their users’ basic objectives of providing relevant information. This is so because
globalization of information is taking place and territorial boundaries are becoming meaningless
due to developments in information and communication technology (ICT) and traditional constraints
of time and space are disappearing. Digital library is the electronic library in which the access,
storage and dissemination of information is in the digitalized form. It is an attempt to touch base with
all the areas relating to use of digital library and digital preservation in libraries in simple language.
This paper briefly describes the planning, designing, development, guidelines for designing,
characteristics, achieves, services, resources, maintenance, responsibility, role of librarian, strategies,
definition, need, purpose , function, digitization in libraries, Standards, policy, Softwares
available, LSDI, advantages, disadvantages, etc.
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Digital Library, Hybrid Library, Digital Preservation, Digital Library Archives