“Building Digital Library
Using LSDigital”
Vinod Kumar, Assistant Librarian,
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &
Technology, Hisar
E-mail: vinugju@yahoo.com
vinugju@gmail.com
S.S. Joshi, Assistant Librarian,
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science &
Technology, Hisar
E-mail: ssjoshi99@yahoo.com
Abha Sharma
Librarian, Haryana Space Application
Centre, (HARSAC), HISAR
E-mail: abhaharsac@yahoo.com

DIGITAL LIBRARY
 Digital library is a cultural infrastructure that
collects and stores information in electronic
format and supports its users in accessing a
large collection of information effectively
through digital means

DIGITIZATION
 Digitization of information basically means the
process of converting paper documents such as text,
graphics etc. into digital image, which can be make
accessible through electronic network. We can say
digitization means process which is meant to
eliminate paperwork and make a transition to a
paperless environment with the help of software
technology.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
DIGITAL LIBRARIES
 User-friendly interface.
 Advanced searching and retrieval.
 Supporting multimedia content.
 Availability for long time.
 Network Accessibility

CHARACTERSTICS ……
 Accessibility from anywhere, home, school,
libraries, during travel etc.
 Providing access to very large collections
including access to primary and secondary
information.
 Greater opportunity for publishing etc.

BENEFITS OF DIGITAL
LIBRARIES
 24 hour accessibility of
information
 Multi-user Accessibility
 Storage of information is
cheaper in digital form than in
printed form
 Information sharing

BENEFITS ……
 Quick transmission of information
 Information is readily available
 Enhanced searching techniques
 Quick retrieval

FUNCTIONS…….
 To enable greater access to
information.
 To provide means to enrich the
teaching and learning environment
 To protect owners of information

PROCESS OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
 Identification and selection of digital objects :- keeping in
view of the objectives of the library, the digital material is
identified and selected.
 Scanning :- the selected objects may be of two types- born
digitally or to be converted in digital form. If the material is print
form, the same is converted in digital format by using scanners
and related software.
 Storage:- the digital objects are stored on a suitable device.
 Retrieval:- the stored material is retrieved as and when required.

Hardware
 Compute P IV with high capacity hard disk for server and
clients in the LAN, Web servers and FTP Servers
 Workstation PCs
 Capture devices- scanners, cameras
 High power UPS (5-20 KVS)
 Output devices like- Printers, CD-ROM, DVD, OCR
 High speed LAN, WAN, Internet connectivity

Software
 Operating System
 OCR software
 Scanning Software
 Acrobat Reader
 CD-Read/Write software
 Digital Library Software
 Networking software, SQL server software
 Web Designing software like Java, front page, XML etc.
 RDBMS supporting the variety of digital databases like Oracle,
MYSQL etc.
 Full text search engine to index and provide access to digital
resources.

LSDigital: Introduction
LSDigital is an “Add-on” item to LibSys software and
thus is fully compatible with LibSys. The entire
process is fully automated thereby requiring
minimum effort by the user and integration with
LibSys database is implicit. It provides great
benefits to the users who would be able to search
both digitized and non-digitized library collection
through a common library OPAC.

LSDigital
 LSDigital of LibSys is a complete solution for
managing digital resources. It is used for creating
digital resources using any twain compliant scanner.
There is option to import any pre-scanned images
of the required resources. The digital resource
created by this system preserves the visual layout of
the document while providing full text search in the
various sections of the resource. This is made
possible by converting pages corresponding to each
element of the digital resources into a corresponding
‘PDF’ text file

LSDigital supports the following functions:-
 Resource Structure Definition
 Scanning
 Versions maintenance
 PDF conversion
 Resource Database maintenance
 Searching and retrievals

Steps in collection building using
LSDigital
The steps involved in collection building
using LSDigital are discussed in the
coming slides.

LibSys-Cataloguing –Maintenance -Enter title

Select type of document and enter title

Enter bibliographical details

Give Call No. , Keywords or modify the records

Give accession no. & click OK

Now again come back to
cataloguing Module

Cataloguing-> Maintenance-> Multimedia

Click on Add button:

Now click Scan Document:

Now LSDigital is ready to work
Step No. 1 starts
with the selection
of category

Select Article / Thesis 1.

Right click on title & select Add Sub Item:

Type the name of book / thesis & go
to Define Index:

Define no. of items / files to be imported (if it is 1
file, type 1-1), & click on save button

Save the settings

Step 2 starts with
the Capturing the
files

Open your tree & select the location for
import, an icon will be enabled for importing:

After clicking Import icon, following window will
open to select the desired file.

After importing, page will be viewed like this:

Click No, if you don’t want to save cover page:

If you are importing .pdf file then go directly to ‘Publish E-
book button, else go to Conversion Step & Click on Convert
All or Convert into PDF button.

Come back to Cataloguing----House keeping----
Rebuild Inverted Files:

And then update Inverted Files:

Now go to OPAC----Select Browsing----Type the name of
document----Select Document & click E-Resource button:

E-book will be opened like this:

Now click on the tree for retrieval:

The complete digital object
can be viewed.

Integration with LibSys OPAC (Printed Books)
Example 1

Integration with LibSys OPAC (Printed Books)
Example 2

CONCLUSION
 In the present era, information is being generated in variety
of ways on various format from various sources. To meet out
the situation posed on the library, the selection, scanning,
storage and retrieval of digital information have become the
necessity. All libraries may have to build their digital
libraries else have to acquire the capability to access other
digital libraries or information on Internet for all their users.
Many libraries are using various open source software like
Greenstone, Fedora, DSpace, E-Prints etc. and Commercial
software like LSDigital have appeared for building the
digital library.

CONCLUSION
 There is option to import any pre-scanned images of
the required resources. The digital resource created
by this system preserves the visual layout of the
document while providing full text search in the
various sections of the resource.
 The entire process is fully automated thereby
requiring minimum effort by the user and
integration with LibSys database is implicit. The
financial sound libraries using LibSys software for
its housekeeping operations may use the LSDigital
software for building digital library.

THANK
YOU