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Digital Library Development and Digital Library Initiatives in India: At a Glance

Digital Library Development and Digital Library Initiatives in India- At a glance, 2019

Paper deals with the digital library definition and concept followed by specific features. Digital Library Development and Initiatives in Indian environment has been categorized and discussed elaborately. The paper concluded with the remarks that more digital library development and initiatives should be taken up by the academic disciplines and Government should encourage for such initiatives. 1. Introduction The information professionals has faced number of challenges in handling, processing, disseminating information since the last decade of the 20 th century mainly for information explosion-generation of information incessantly increased with the advancement of Information and Communication Technology in all fields of research and development; use of Internet became popular during 1990s in advanced countries due to which information communication developed to a large extent leading to generation of more and more information resources that too in e-format; popularity of electronic resources due to a large number of advantages over print resources gave the concept of managing these resources for proving easy access to its seekers brought the concept of electronic library that came into being in 1992; information professionals are demanded for handling more information and it involved a greater level of activity; they are in need of greater efficiency than previous; and demand for creating opportunities for cooperation and centralization in the creation and exploitation of shared data.

" A functional Approach to Digital Library in India

(Abstract) The rapid advancement in Information Technologies has revolution the sole of libraries. Information Technology has its own niche in every aspect of life in the society. Changes in society & technology made variation in the life style of Indian people and their views & attitude towards the libraries. Today digital world is concerned, with creating, sharing & using information in digital form. Information Technology has almost converted the world into a global village. The rise of digital libraries has brought phenomenal change in the progress of collection, storage, preservation of rare documents, retrieval & dissemination of information. Now –a-days the ICT is considered as an important commodity and is playing an important sole for development in all fields such as education, research etc. The present study focuses on the functional aspect of the digital library. In the present society, digital libraries are playing a key role in disseminating information by providing different types of relevant & recent information to the users with a short span of time. The digital library can provide enhanced access to the electronic information sources and the users can access the digital content irrespective of time & space boundaries. This study also discusses the core elements and functional components of the digital library.

Study of Selected Digital Libraries at National Level

This study mainly describes various aspects of Digital Library its contents, components, characteristics, emerging technologies in Digital library. This study also emphasizes on its genesis, need, digitization process, technical issues, advantages, problems and their future. Today there are umpteen numbers of Digital Libraries worldwide; some of the important Digital Libraries in India have been highlighted here. Major ten Digital libraries were analysed in order to study web pages like authority statement, currency of information included, facilities provided and content coverage links. Points are assigned for grading the Digital libraries.

Comparative analysis and benefits of digital library over traditional library

World Scientific News, 2015

The paper reviews the relevance of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as related to other professions especially, the Library professions. The importance, advantages and limitations of digital library over the traditional library were emphasized. The comparative analyses of the two types of libraries were also discussed. Governments in all tiers of the Nation and Legislators were advised to make policies and legislate bills respectively that can advance the present state of the National grid and improve on the Internet technology infrastructures which are major factors that can drive digitization.

Digital Library initiatives in India: an overview

The emergence of Internet has added a new dimension to information technology which gave birth to the new concepts of Digital Libraries (DLs), Knowledge Management (KM), and archiving of indigenous culture and heritage materials. The Digital Libraries have emerged as a crucial component of global information infrastructure, adopting the latest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote an organisational structure that encourages communication and resource sharing between the academician and scholars across the nations. In India, a number of digital library initiatives and digitization programmes have been initiated across the country. Most of the digital library initiatives are government funded. The Ministry of Communications and Information technology has also established the Digital Library of India. This paper discusses various problems, challenges and issues involved in design and development of digital libraries in India.

Development of Digital Libraries: Old Wine in New Bottles

Rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs) has made an environment globally to the growth of digital libraries. Digital libraries (DL) are facilitating researchers, scholars, learners, information professionals to access their information in variety of formats and learning support at their desktops without any geographical barrier. They are providing electronic based (e-based) information delivery to its users crossing the boundaries of time, space and location. DL users can be reached remotest corners of the world to fill their thrust of information. It makes a gateway to the users for retrieving and browsing of desired information from its huge resources like one stop shopping of big shopping mall. It provides extra services of 24X7 hour uninterrupted access through Internet to the users at their desktop. . It supports teaching, learning and research while reaching unreachable without walls. Greater revolution has occurred in the libraries recent past converting paper-based libraries to electronic based ones. With the emergence of WWW and availability of national and global networks, libraries have turned their attention to digital collections rather than building printed-based collection. In this way, librarian's role dramatically changed and is responsible for what digital repositories available for their users and how users can access to the available information within the physical walls of the library or elsewhere.

DIGITAL LIBRARIES IN ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT OF THE NATION

This paper discusses the new activities, methods and technology used in digitization and formation of digital libraries. It set out some key points involved and detailed plans required in the process, offers pieces of advice and guidance for the practicing librarians and information scientists. Digital Libraries are being created today for diverse communities and in different fields for e.g. education, science, culture, development, health, governance and so on. With the availability of several free digital library software packages at the recent time, the creation and sharing of information through the digital library collections has become an attractive and feasible proposition for library and information professionals around the world. The paper ends with a call to integrate digitization into the plans and policies of any institution to maximize its effectiveness

A Status Report Of The National Digital Library Of India

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, 2022

Wide geographic region and large diverse population of India is the main barrier to spreading education to the masses. Today now in the 'Digital India Era' digital libraries become a boon for the education system. The government uses technology in many of its activities, and providing high-quality education is among them. A one-stop source for all information needs is the National Digital Library of India (NDLI), it gives access to wide range of information by sources, file types, subjects, and educational levels to anyone and anywhere 24*7. The present paper aims to analyze the current status of NDLI. The information gathered for the latest work from the NDLI's official website and then further evaluated to meet the project goal.

Digital Library Initiatives in India: A Comprehensive Study

This study is a survey of digital library initiatives in India. The survey is based on the secondary information of about fifty digital libraries from their respective websites. The findings show that in most cases the actual conception of digital library in India is still in nascent stage. The online subscriptions and linked to the third-party websites are also considered as a digital library. However, many digital libraries have not any proper search interface in their respective website due to improper arrangement of metadata. In some cases, they do not have their own digitized collection and provide some other’s collections or referred to their users to some third-party website. Moreover, there are many digital libraries which cannot be accessed outside (remote access) the organization. Moreover, the so-called digital libraries in India have not developed their own standards or are not following any global standards. However, the usage statistics for the government digital libra...

Digital Library Initiatives in North East India: A Survey

2022

This is a survey of digital library initiative of North East India. The recent initiative by the government of India towards the digitization is reflected in various digitation programs. The secondary sources of data are used to map the 16 digital library initiatives in eight north east state of India. The study has observed that digital library in true sense is perhaps lacking. Many of the digital libraries are not accessible from the outside and lack regular maintenance. In this context, a national level policy initiative is the need of the hour including various stakeholders from the academics, library professionals etc. The study also comes up with various important observations and policy suggestions which may be helpful for scholar, librarians, policy and decision makers in the government.