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Digitization and Library
Digitization (Definition): “Digitization refers to the process of translating a piece of information such as book, sound recording, picture or video into bits. Bits are the fundamental units of information in a computer systems. Turning information into these binary digits is called digitization” Digitization is one of the hot topics in librarianship today. To build a ‘digital library’ requires that the content of a collection be available electronically. The rhetoric of the... Read more » -
Digital Preservation and Library
Preservation of Digital Resources: Digital preservation is a process by which data is preserved in digital form in order to ensure usability, durability and intellectual integrity of the information contained therein. A more precise definition as given by Kelly (1999), “The storage, maintenance, and accessibility of digital object (include any digital material such as a text document, an image file, a multimedia CD-ROM or a database) over long term, usually as a... Read more » -
Digital Library as a Community
library is more than books and bricks. If it is successful, is supports a sense of community among its users, as an archive of its collective knowledge and as a resource for its future. Yet digital libraries thus far have tended to be digitized versions of card catalogs, books and journals, and as such do not evoke a sense of community. But digital libraries might well be designed to do so. First... Read more » -
The concept of digital divide
What is Digital Divide? The term ‘digital divide’ describes the fact that the world can be divided into people who do and people who don’t have access to – and the capability to use – modern information technology, such as the telephone, television, or the Internet. The digital divide exists between those in cities and those in rural areas. The digital divide also exists between the educated and the uneducated, between... Read more » -
Digital Preservation
Digital Preservation Digital Preservation is the current trend in all modern libraries and archives. It is recognized as a vital part of managing information in digital format. A number of libraries have thus started to invest intensive research and development to provide solutions that allow us to maintain digital objectives accessible. Most of these solutions, how ever, are aimed at larger institution which have a dedicated mandate, and thus can build up... Read more »
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