the main aspect of information literacy. The special training program must be arranged to make users literate. These programs may be in the form of seminars, workshops of short duration about 2 to 4 days. If the library systems are user friendly then short duration programs would be appropriate to literate users. The library must have special funds for implementing literacy programs.
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DIGITAL LIBRARIES AND FUTURE
Mr. Fulari Arjun Ramdas, Librarian, Maratha Vidya Prasarak Samaj's Arts and Commerce College Taharabad, Tal-Baglan, Dist-Nashik.
Abstract
The paper presents the Digital libraries and its future.Information and communication technology (ICT) has brought in a revolution and transformed the way libraries perform. Day by day ICT is occupying and indispensable and significance role in Libraries. These days' digitization and libraries are like hand in gloves and are ready to cater to the needs of entire universe. Like information seeking behavior of academicians, educationists, teachers, research scholars, students and others has completely undergone a remarkable change. Each one wants information within seconds that too fast and accurate.
Keywords: concept of digital library, paradigm shift of academic libraries, future challenge and opportunities.
Introduction: The emergence and widespread use of internet and web technologies have made profound impact on traditional library operations, management and services. Libraries have undergone a transformation from a manual system to a technologically driven system. Libraries of all size and types are now adopting the latest technologies and innovations in order to find new way to organize and manage information resources and to provide a user- centred information.Likewise information seeking behaviour of academicians, educationists, teachers, research scholars, students and others has completely undergone a remarkable change. Each one wants information within seconds that that too fast and accurate.
Concept of Digital Library: Digital revolution is a buzz word in the society. Digital library is leading slogan these days. Its impact on the libraries is enormous and clearly visible. In the digital library, all the collections or the major part of the collections are in digital or electronic mode. This helps the users to use or acess with a machine or device any point of time at any places requisting the book to be issued is much easier than its print version. It save the time, use time is reduced and searching the collection is easier too. These preferences have affected the users to change their attitude and mindset in the library use. At the same time financial burdens are reduced to some extent, in purchasing those desired materials for the users. The resource crunch is no more a hindrance to the library authority. ''Librarians must define their roles now, before the future overtakes them. Paradigm shift in Academic Libraries: It is quite evident that mandate of the academic libraries is to support the academic and scholarly mission of their respective colleges and universities. Being the treasure trove of knowledge and gateways of information, academic libraries and librarians have to explore innovative ways to fulfil the information and associated needs of readers especially keeping in view the paradigmatic shift in knowledge generation and management, constant invention of new web technologies, penetration of information and communication technologies, availability of open web resources and presence of information search and retrieval giant like GOOGLE. All these have changed the users demand scenario and therefore in order to fulfil and meet the demand and expectations of all its users, libraries and there policy makers have rise to occasion and to change and redesign their activates to deliver high quality, need based, value added services by adopting new and innovative technologies
Future Challenges and Opportunities: With the ascent of digital documents and digital technologies, libraries role has been widely expanded and multifaceted challenges have emerged. the challenges are not only manifold but seem to be threatening to the existence of libraries but simultaneously offering opportunities to library professions to frame proper strategies to fulfil the changing needs of users in the changing technological environment. Some of the challenges and appropriate strategies to overcome them may be enumerated as:Effective utilization of digital technologies in supporting education and research to meet demands of academic institutions, faculty, students, scholars, others both at personalized level as well as community levelManaging digital information resources like digitization collections, institutional repositories, learning object repositories, online journals, various other web resources in an effective, impressive and user friendly manner.Promoting access to open access resources by identifying, discovering relevant scholarly web resources and getting these resources available to user community through user friendly information gateways.Emergence of mobile technologies, its popularity and its various implications in the society has opened a new vista for academic libraries too. Scope of suitable and effective implementation in this area must be explored and looked into for the benefit of user community.MOOCs (Massive open online courses) and rise of online education is another challenging dimension for the academic librarians. They have to prepare themselves and evolve logistics to meet the demands of such students.Academic librarians must adopt and have to emphasize on information literacy skills. Information literacy in the form of training and learning/support need to be delivered to the users either in persons or in groups. Such programmes are required on account of complexities and varieties of digital/web resources and would ensure effective use of subscribed and non-subscribed resources. Such programme will reaffirm believe in campus community that the library is central to academic activity what Dr.S.R.Rangnathan had said 67/68 years ago.
Conclusion: National knowledge commission has undoubtedly recognized the role and significance of academic libraries. However, to transform India into a knowledge society, academic libraries are required to redesign in order to meet the new challenges and expectations of the readers. New format of publications, intensive use of digital materials, changing pattern of education and learning and role of ICT in access of
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information, etc. are the most compelling factors and challenges before the academic libraries. Therefore, librarians have to adapt to these challenges, frame suitable strategies to overcome these challenged and acquire new and requisite skills to meet out the demand and expectations of their users. In a world that is forever changing, the only certainty is change. Therefore, strategies for building 21st century libraries and librarians must focus on the ability of librarians and libraries to not just adapt to change, but to prepare for it, facilitate it and shape it.
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DIGITAL LIBRARY SOFTWARE: A REVIEW
Prof.Archana Arun Vanikar, Librarian, B.P.Arts S.M.A. Sc. And K.K.C. Comm. College Chalisgaon
Introduction: Change is the nature of law, traditional library changed into digital library. In this present era we are living in the age of knowledge based information society considers information as a wealth which should be made available right information for the right user by right way in the right time. Digital Library plays an important role in providing more appropriate information in less time with easy access. The mission of digital library is to organize the information and make it universally available, accessible and useful. The advent of e- books and e-publishing is changing the way reader‘s access information all over the world.
Digital Library: In digital library all resources are in digital form and services are fully automated. A library services, located either in a physical or virtual space or a combination of both in which a significant proportion of the resources available in through remote access. In enable users to interact effectively with information distributed across a network.It could be based on a subject discipline, a vocation or profession, a region or nation.―A Digital Library is an online collection of digital objects of assured quality that they are created and managed according to internationally accepted principles for collection development and made accessible in a coherent and sustainable manner, supported by services necessary to allow users to retrieve and exploit the resources.‖According to Larson, ―Digital libraries are not single stand able and repositories, of digital date. Instead, they are a heterogeneous collection of network based repositories using a variety of protocols for user‘s interaction, data encoding and transmission.‖ Digital Libraries are an organization that provides the resources, including specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to interpret, distribute, preserve and integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections digital works so that they readily and economically available for use by a defined community of set of communities.
Software: Software is a part of a computer system that consists of data or computer instructions, in contrast to the physical hardware from which the system is built. In the software anything can be stored in electronically in the contrast storage devices and input output devices are called hardware. Organized information in the form of operating system, Utilities, programs and applications that enables to work computer.
Types of Digital Library Software: Present days there is much software are available for building digital libraries. Open source software are also available, Greenstone, D-space these are an open source software for building digital library.
4.1 Greenstone Digital Library Software: The Greenstone digital library software is an open source system for the construction and presentation of information collection. Greenstone is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. It provides a way of organizing information and publishing it on the web or on removable media such as DVD and USB flash drives. Greenstone is produced by the New Zealand Digital Library Project at the University of Waikato, and developed and distributed in cooperation with UNESCO and the Human Info NGOBelgum. It is open-source, multilingual software, issued under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Greenstone runs on all versions of Windows, and Unix/Linux and Mac OS-X and very easy to install. It has two separate interactive interfaces, the Reader interface and librarian interface. End users access the digital library through the reader interface, which operates within a web browser. The readers interface is available in the near about 35 languages.
4.2 D-Space: D - S p a c e open source software is a turnkey repository application used by more than 1000+ organizations and institutions worldwide to provide durable access to digital resources. D-Space is the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install "out of the box" and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization. D-Space preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers, committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each D-Space installation benefits from the next. D-space 6.x is the latest release.D-Space 6.x is a major update to the D-Space platform. It features an enhanced configuration system, enhanced file storage plug-in, and new quality control / healthcheck reporting features (via REST API and via email). In addition, D-Space 6 has an eye on the future, with a major Java API refactor that adds support for both UUIDs and Hibernate in our database layer. Like its predecessor, D-Space 6 continues to strive to simplify your upgrade process by automatically updating your database to 6.x compatibility (from any prior D-Space version).
4.3 Fedora: Fedora software is a robust, modular, open source repository system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is especially suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access and preservation. It is also used to provide specialized access to very large and complex digital collections of historic and cultural materials as well as scientific data. Fedora has a worldwide installed user base that includes academic and cultural heritage organizations, universities, research institutions, university libraries, national libraries, and government agencies. The Fedora project is led by the Fedora Leadership Group and is under the stewardship of the Dura Space not-for-profit organization providing leadership and innovation for open source technology projects and solutions that focus on durable, persistent access to digital data. In partnership with
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stakeholder community members Dura Space has put together global, strategic collaborations to sustain Fedora which is used by more than three hundred institutions. The Fedora project is directly supported with financial and in-kind contributions of development resources through the Dura Space community membership program. 4.4 NewGenLib: NewGenLib is an integrated library management system developed by Verus Solutions Pvt Ltd. Domain expertise is provided by Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management in Hyderabad, India. NewGenLib version 1.0 was released in March 2005. On 9 January 2008, NewGenLib was declared free and open-source under GNU GPL. The latest version of NewGenLib is 3.1.1 released on 16 April 2015. Many libraries across the globe (mainly from the developing countries) are using NewGenLib as their Primary integrated library management system as seen from the NewGenlib discussion forum. NewGenLib uses a number of well supported and widely used reliable and well tested open source components like Posture SQL, Apache Tomcat, and Solr License.NewGenLibis entirely Java-based, platform-neutral, and uses the following major software technologies in its presentation, web server and database layers.
E-Prints: E-prints is a free and open-source software package for building open accessrepositories that are