Contents: Preface. Conference committees. I. Digitisation: Issues and challenges, technique: 1. Digitisation issues in DRDO-prospects and problems/N. Venkatesh, G.V. Ramana Rao and S. Kalpavalli. 2. University of Hyderabad Library-Digitisation Project/B. Ravi. 3. Digitisation initiatives in Indian libraries/Shashi P. Singh and Shampa Paul. 4. Digital libraries: Digitisation and preservation/Kalpana and V.B. Elango. 5. Digitisation: Issues and challenges/R.K. Bhatt and Dipti Gulati. 6. An innovative technique for character recognition/Ajay Goel and Sanjeev Mittal. 7. Digitisation and digital preservation/P. Indira. 8. Digital libraries and digitisation issues/Chinmayee Bhange. 9. Making the computer-to-plate decision/Praveen Gupta. II. Digital preservation: Techniques and issues: 10. Preservation of digital cultural heritage materials: Problem and prospectus/Chennupati K. Ramaiah and K. Surendra Babu. 11. Long-term preservation of digital documents: Preservation approaches and storage media/K. Negeswara Rao and R.K. Sharma. 12. Digital resource collection development through preservation in a research library/Manoj Singh, Vijai Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Rajiv Gupta, Ajith Balan and Leena A. Kanal. 13. National strategy for preserving digital resources/Smita Chandra and Vivek Patkar. 14. Digital material in academic libraries: Preservation perspectives/Sunil Kumar Satpathy, Chandrakant Swain and Bijayalaxmi Rautaray. 15. Digital objects preservations/V. Ramachandraiah. 16. Digitally archiving-newspaper clippings/Manorama Tripathi, V.K.J. Jeevan and S.K. Sonker. 17. Digital preservation: Major issues, challenges and possible solutions in digital environment/B. Ramesha Babu and Ramesh. 18. Digital preservation: methodological, technical and legal issues/Anjali Sharma. 19. Preservation of web resources/Jayashree Kanetkar. 20. Digital preservation and retrieval in the context of institutional archiving/Vinod Kumari Sharma and Nirja Magoch. 21. Conservation of rare books and preservation of digital information at CIIL Library/R. Suman Kumari. 22. Digital preservation: An enduring solution to archival documents and manuscripts/H.S. Chopra. 23. Preserving our scientific heritage: Role of Meghnad Saha Archive/Dipa Dasgupta. 24. Preserving digital information/Kishore Avineni and Kiranmai Suravaram. 25. Digitisation and preservation: Implications and trends/Mohammed Imtiaz Ahmed. 26. Long-term preservation and perpetual access to online scholarly content: The LOCKSS way/B. Obaiah and Francis Jayakanth. 27. Digitisation and preservation of conventional and digital resources initiatives in India/Naushad Ali P.M. and Faizul Nisha. 28. Preservation and conservation procedures/Babita Garg and Salek Chand. 29. Digital preservation: Problems and strategies/V. Shalini and J. Sridevi. 30. Role of preservation/conservation in the digital age/Subhash Chandra. 31. Digital preservation techniques/M.G. Srilatha. III. Digital libraries: 32. The IDAIR Project: Search service interoperability using SRU/A.K. Tyagi, Priyanka Kalbhor, Arun Maurya, Aparna Raghuraman and Madhavi Dhanwantari. 33. Digital repository at Delhi College of Engineering/R.K. Shukla. 34. Establishing of digital library and digital preservation at knowledge resource centre/D. Saravanan, J. Paramasivam and Koppad Yamanappa A. 35. Understanding digital library open source software for modern library and information service in changing environment/Indrajit Pan and Subarna K. Das. 36. Digital libraries: Issues in digitisation/A. Sharma, S. Bhardwaj and S Chandra. 37. Digital library: Techno-scientific issues and challenges/D.R. Gupta. 38. Archival of century old geomagnetic data management in digital form and its retrieval/R. Nimje, M. Doiphode and S. Alex. 39. Digital libraries: Creation and preservation of digitised materials/Abdul Momin Midda, Sripati Mukerjee and Bairam Khan. 40. Really simple syndication feeds for libraries: A proposal/V. Vijaya Sudha. 41. Digital library for defence organisations/H.S. Waydande and Suhasini Deshmukh. 42. Digital libraries and digitisation issues/Anil Kumar. 43. Consortiums in India: A case study/Vijay Rai, N.J. Deshpande and Sandeep K. Pathak. IV. Metadata, open standards and semantic web: 44. Metadata encoding and transmission standard for digital preservation in the context of institutional repositories/Surinder Kumar and C.R. Karisiddappa. 45. Digitisation and standardization of metadata for Maharashtra cadastral maps: A case study/Arvind V. Hadap and G. Sreenivasa Rao. 46. PREMIS-A metadata standard for digital preservation/Kaushal K. Giri. 47. Connecting XML, RDF and web technologies for representing knowledge on the semantic web/Sumit Goswami. 48. Semantic web/Mangesh Ramrao Bhitre and Leena Ramrao Bhitre. 49. Text mining: Exploring the world of texts/Nishant Kumar. 50. Application and analysis of artificial neural networks through fuzzy logic/Manoj Mishra, S. Jean Adrien Fenelon and A. Emmanuel Peo Mariadas. 51. Semantic web and digital libraries/Ritu Nagpal. V. Knowledge Management: 52. Web-based knowledge management system: A proposed model for University of Delhi/K.P. Singh. 53. Enhanced management of corporeal knowledge through geographic information system: A territorial approach/Promila. 54. Knowledge management software and tools for global libraries/Bhaw Nath Pandey, Shyam Sundar Pandey and Ale Ahamad Naqui. 55. Knowledge mapping/M. Prahalada Rao, D.V. Ramana Rao, B.N. Rangaswamy and J.R.C. Sarma. 56. Library web page: A web study of libraries on Indian Council of Social Science Research Institutes/Shiv Sindhu Chouksey. 57. Knowledge management and e-resources: BrahMos Knowledge Centre/Surekha Kaul. 58. Knowledge management in libraries/Shishir H. Mandalia. 59. Knowledge management on web-based technologies/Ram Nath Maurya. 60. Knowledge management: An overview/D. Balasubramanian. 61. Knowledge management/R. Ramesh Babu and D.P. Singh. 62. Knowledge management/U.V.S. Kumar. VI. Copyright issues on digitisation: 63. Intellectual property rights/Abdul Rashid Dhar and Tabasum. 64. US orphan works bill and current copyright issues in India/Rajeev Vij and Navin Kumar Soni. 65. Copyright law for digital preservation and digitisation in library/Manish Kumar Bajpai and Ashish K. Srivastava. VII. Networking and storage solutions, Open Access Movement in India: 66. Centralized management of datacentre using IPSAN/Rakesh Yadav and Vinod Kumari Sharma. 67. Activities and services of library and information networks/Rohit Singh. 68. Social networking technologies in digital environment: Its possible implications for libraries/C.S. Mishra and S. Munda. 69. Improve the availability and demand of web page with the help of compression techniques/Manpreet Kaur and Durgesh Samadhiya. 70. Wireless Sensor Network/Y.L. Prathapa Reddy. 71. Open journal system: A journal management and publishing system/Dipti Arora. 72. Cyber space in library and information centres/Lingaiah Vuppala. 73. Long-term preservation of electronic publications/R. Vasanth Kumar Mehta and N.R. Ananthanarayanan. 74. Building of multimedia institutional repository: A case study of NIFT, Hyderabad/M. Sreenivasulu. 75. Changing scenario of journals: From print to online/Jahangir Khan and M.K. Vishwakarma.