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PAPER ID: IJIM/Vol. 8(I) May 2023/19-24 /4
AUTHOR : Ashish Singh Yadav,Brahm Prakash , Kamini Singh and M.K. Tripathi
TITLE: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF LIBRARIES
ABSTRACT: The electronic or digital resources are assuming more and more significance in the digital libraries. Now, digitalization of already printed resources have led to enhanced availability of journals and books in digital format. The electronic books have proved their worthiness due to their easy portability and storage in a single pen drive or hard disc. The concept of digital libraries could be possible due to the great contribution of information and communication technology and discovery of internet that have helped in easy and user-friendly information processing, storing, searching and dissemination. Now, digital technologies are available at our doorstep with capability of effectively creating and capturing information in different formats, so that it can be made available to the end users. Electronic or digital resources are now available with enhanced accessibility beyond time and space. E- Books, E-Journal, E-Newspaper, E-Magazines, Indexing and Abstracting Databases, Full text database, Reference Database, Statistical Database, Image collection, Multimedia products, E- Theses, E- Clippings, E-Patents and E- Standards are few examples of digital resources. Digital resources have several benefits such as user friendly interface, working round the clock, seven days a week, access from any place, simultaneously access by number of user, huge reservoirs, saving of physical storage space, easy searching of e-resources to find articles on a particular subject from many different publications at the same time at one click, .no restriction to geographical limitation, easy for distance learning and online education. But there are few limitations of digital resources like reading only on the computer screens causing obesity, fatness, heart ailments, diabetes, eye strain, poor vision, wrong posture, neck pain and physical as well as mental stress and poor physical health to the readers, less permanent in nature due to their reliance on software and hardware, higher cost for their retrieval, issues regarding revision of the licenses and copying and distributing of resources, recording of upward trend in cyber-crimes and extra=marital affairs and watching of unwarranted website and prohibited contents. . It is being estimated that more than 90% of the material would be in digital form by 2025. In such a situation and future trend, library professionals should acquaint themselves with the new emerging digital environment and evolve the best possible technology and method of efficient and effective management of these resources for their improved availability and accessibility.
KEYWORDS : Digital resources, e-books, e-journals, e-newspapers, characteristics evaluation, digital library.
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