Developing sustainable digital libraries
Subtitle: socio-technical perspectives
By: [edited by] Tariq Ashraf, Jaideep Sharma, Puja Anand Gulati
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hershey, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781615207671
Description: "This book provides tools to complement an organization's burgeoning information treasuries, exploring new frontiers by looking at social and economic aspects of digital libraries and their sustainability"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "Premier reference source"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Digital libraries : a sustainable approach / Tariq Ashraf, Puja Anand Gulati; title: Digital libraries and scholarly communication : a perspective / S.C. Jindal; title: Digitisation : methods, tools, and techniques / Jagdish Arora; title: Tools and techniques for digital conversion / Pravin Kumar Choudhary; title: Building digital libraries : role of social (open source) software / Kshema Prakash, Jason A. Pannone, K. Santi Swarup; title: Web 2.0 and Social Web approaches to digital libraries / Arun Kumar Chakraborty; title: Information preservation and services in the digital age / Manisha Saksena; title: Digital preservation challenges, infrastructures and evaluations / David Giaretta; title: Managing change in reference and information services in digital environment / Shantanu Ganguly, Shweta Pandey; title: Digital library and repositiories : an Indian initiative / Bharat Kumar; title: Collaborative digital library development in India : a network analysis / Anup K. Das, B.K. Sen, Chaitali Dutta; title: Intellectual property rights / Jaideep Sharma; title: Facilitating access to Indian cultural heritage : copyright, permission rights and ownership issues vis-à-vis IGNACA collection / Ramesh Gaur; title: Harnessing technology for providing knowledge for development : new role for libraries / M. Ishwara Bhatt; title: Digital library and e-governance : moving towards sustainable rural livelihoods / P.K. Upadhyaya, M. Moni; title: Bridging the digital divide : a review of critical factors in developing countries / Leila Nemati Anaraki, Azadeh Heidari; title: Digital divide and economic wealth : evidence from Asia-Pacific countries / Shampa Paul.