Advances in Library and Information Science : Vol. 5. Digital
Libraries/D.C. Ojha and D.V. Kothari. Jodhpur, Scientific, 2005, xviii, 318
p., ISBN 81-7233-393-5.
Advances in Library and Information Science : Vol. 5. Digital
Libraries/D.C. Ojha and D.V. Kothari. Jodhpur, Scientific, 2005, xviii, 318
p., ISBN 81-7233-393-5.
Contents: Introduction. 1. Policy and planning of digital libraries/G.R. Deshmukh and Jiji Cyriac. 2. Digital libraries : myths and challenges/D.C. Ojha. 3. Digital libraries : an overview of standards, protocols and formats/S.D. Vyas and D.K. Singh. 4. Perspectives in digital library/R.S. Sharma, Manishkumar V. Pandya and Rachna Patnaik. 5. Emerging trends of digital libraries/Nasib S. Gill. 6. Digital archives and document management/V.K.J. Jeevan. 7. Digital libraries: storage and management/D. Rajyalakshmi. 8. The economics of e-information access : search flow for optimal performance/Anurag Chaube. 9. Digitization of Dr. Raheja Library : a case study/Manish Prajapati and D.C. Ojha. 10. Digital information and documentation management in leather and allied subjects : an analytical study of LESA/V. Kasirao, B. Ramesh Babu and S. Gopalakrishnan. 11. Digital libraries : projects and programmes/M. Masoom Raza and Tasneem Khatoon. 12. Electronic information access/L.S.R.C.V. Ramesh. 13. Digital library : a new environment for electronic information users/T.R. Borse. 14. Digital contents : its management and copyright control/Akhtar Hussain and M. Massom Raza. 15. Digital libraries : use, design and development/M. Tariq Anwer and Md. Nasrul Hoda. 16. Role and responsibilities of digital library professionals for information management/V. Sivasubramanian. 17. Impact of electronic journals on library and information services/T. Ashok Babu. 18. Electronic copyright/Ratna Bandopadhyay. 19. Searching information in internet/B.K. Sen. 20. Digital library--the need of the hour/Sonal Singh, Surendra Singh and T.D. Tilwani. 21. Developing digital libraries: need for proper strategies/R. Raman Nair. 22. Digital property rights and licensing issues/N.R. Satyanarayana and Ranjana Srivastava. 23. Nitya archive: software for developing full text digital libraries/K.H. Hussain and K. Raveendran Asari. 24. Antivirus and protection of digital libraries/Manish Prajapati and Tirth Das Pahalvani. Index.
"The digital or virtual libraries have brought the revolutionary changes in the entire concept of library organization, management and operations. To peep into it, library and information science professionals, need to be get ready to face the challenges emerging due to the adoption of newer technologies. In this volume an attempt has been made to synthesize all aspects of digital libraries and to put them in the systematic order at one place to understand the conceptual phenomena and to render the better services. This book deals not only with the theoretical aspects of digital libraries but there are also some case studies which show the path to go ahead. Antivirus is also an important factor in forming the digital library. This aspect has also been given the due importance and a complete chapter has been devoted to this aspect. Few important topics concerning to digital libraries covered in this volume are:
The book is suppose to be useful for the practicing librarians, information scientists, teachers and students of library and information science and to those who feel concerned with modernization and digitization of library resources."