1) The document discusses various digital library initiatives taken in different countries and areas including education, research, development, health, scholarly publishing, preservation, and electronic journals. 2) It provides examples of specific digital libraries for each area, including Vidyanidhi for education and research in India, Food and Nutrition Library for development and health, eScholarship for scholarly publishing, and Europeana for preservation and heritage. 3) Features of initiatives like ACM DL for electronic journals are also summarized, highlighting their purpose, content and formats, languages, and services like search, access to information, and personalization features.

1. Shriram Pandey
Asst. Professor & In-Charge
MLS University, Udaipur
(CPDL-1/Block-1/Unit-3 & 4)

2. DL Initiatives
 The growth and popularity of the Internet and WWW
resulted in two major DL initiatives being taken in the
mid 1900’s in the USA
 First: National Science Foundation(NSF):1994
 Fund six digital library development projects among six
academic institutions
 Second: Library of congress and 14 other research
library :1995
 National Digital Library Federation Agreement
 Currently several DL initiatives taken by different
countries serve different purposes.

3. Services of DL is based on its type, nature of collection, policy and
users..
DL Initiatives
Based on Subjects
DL for Education
and Research
DL for Scholarly
Publishing
DL for
Development and
Health
DL for
Preservation and
Heritage
DL for Electronic
Journals
Based on
Geographical Area
DL Geographically
Distributed in
different
Countries
DL Initiatives at
National Level
DL Initiatives at
International
Level

4. DL Initiatives
2) Education and Research:Vidyanidhi
 Purpose
 A digital Library aims to be a national repository for Indian theses and
dissertation
 Content and Document formats
 Content: Report of the research work and dissertations conducted in
universities
 Format : tagged with appropriate metadata and made available in PDF
 Language: Metadata is also available in Kannada and Hindi
 Services
 Provide access to bibliographic information(also in Hindi and kannada)
and also full text of the theses in PDF format.
 Search feature: Simple and Advanced search
 Translated version in Roman Script
 Additional information: List of the Universities, Profiles of Faculty

6. DL Initiatives
2) Development and Health: Food and Nutrition Library
 Purpose
 A digital Library aims to make available freely or at low cost, and
provide access to information on food and nutrition issue to those
involved in the work of food, nutrition.
 Content and Document formats
 Content: Publication of various organization built using GSDL
 Format : HTML
 Language: content is also available in French and Spanish(mainly in
English)
 Services
 Accessible through search and browse interface
 Browsing the library by subject, by alphabetical order
 Retrieved documents can be read chapter-wise or can download in zip
file.
 Interface is available in three languages: English, French and Spanish

8. DL Initiatives
3) Scholarly Publishing: eScholarship
 Purpose
 eScholarship provides open access scholarly publishing services to the
University of California and deliver a dynamic research platform to scholar
s world wide.
 Content and Document formats
 Content: eScholarship portal has define guidelines for those who want to
upload content.
 Format : Multiple
 Language: mainly in English
 Services
 Accessible through search and browse interface through single search box
 Deposit/Publish different type of documents(book, conference, journal)
 Browse content by recently added, Most Popular, Department, Journal etc
 Provision of user profiling and save items

10. DL Initiatives
DL for Preservation and Heritage: Europeana
 Purpose
 Europeana aims to a serve as a multilingual repository of digitized items
from European Museums, libraries and archive
 Content and Document formats
 Content: digitized items from European Museums, libraries and archive
 Format : Multiple
 Language: Multilingual
 Services
 Provide access to bibliographic information and also full text of the in
different format.
 Search feature: By titles, Creators, Subject, Periods and Places
 Interface is available in many languages and also personalization features
 Additional information: follows semantic approach for metadata
description and access.

12. DL Initiatives
DL for Electronic Journal: ACM DL
 Purpose
 ACM DL contains every article ever published by ACM and bibliographic
citation from major publishers in computing
 Content and Document formats
 Content: Journals /Transactions/Magazines/Proceedings/E-books
 Format : Multiple(mainly in PDF)
 Language: Multilingual
 Services
 Provide access to bibliographic information and also full text mainly in
PDF format.
 Search feature: Simple and Advanced search and browse by Books,
Periodicals, Proceedings, Theses, Reports etc
 personalization features

14. VMOU, KOTA
CPDL-1/Block-1/Unit-3 & 4