role of digital library in an Academic environment
1. Role Of Digital Library In
Academic Environment
BY- Gunjan Sing
2. it is a collection of documents – such as
magazine, articles, book, papers, images,
sound files and videos – organized in an
electronic form and available on the Internet
or on a digital support.
What Digital Library…
World Digital Library. A source for manuscripts, rare books, films,
maps and more in multilingual format.
Google Books. More than 100,000 books for consultation, download
or
on-line purchase.
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4. THE NEEDS FOR DIGITAL LIBRARIES
Easy to understand: The visual or graphical information
system of digital libraries is more popular as
compared to text based information system.
Distance learning :Learning from home, office or other places,
which are convenient to user
Information retrieval: By using digital library one will be
able to retrieve the information specifically for a
particular image, photo, and definition etc.
Low cost of technology: When we consider the storage capacity
of digital document and its maintained then it can be easily realize th
the cost of
technologies is much more less than that of traditional libraries.
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RESOURCES
On-line resources:
1. E-book, electronic tax, map, image, sound, vide
and multimedia etc.
2. E-journal
3. Local database of traditional books in machine-
readable form.
4. LAN, MAN, WAN for web browsing, e- mail etc.
All the material either print or electronic/digital material
which can be stored, organized, transmitted and
displayed by the computer without any intervening
conversion process, are the resources of a digital
library. For a digital library there are two types of
resources:
1.CD-ROM etc.
2.2. Audio visual aid etc
Off-line resources:
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7. DISADVANTAGES OF THE DIGITAL LIBR
Initial cost is high: - The infrastructure cost of digital library
i.e. the cost of hardware, software; leasing
communication circuit is
generally very high.
Environment: - Digital libraries cannot reproduce the
environment of a traditional library. Many people also
find reading printed material to be easier than
reading material on a computer screen.
Preservation: -Due to technological developments, a
digital library can rapidly become out-of-date
and its data may become inaccessible.
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9. National Digital Library of In
Type of site Education
Available in 10 languages
Headquarters Kharagpur , India
URL ndl.gov.in
Commercial No
Registration Free
Users 20,00,000+ (January 2019)