Vrinda J. Benegal ¹

Affiliations
1 Raman Research Institute, CV Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560 080, IN

Abstract

Today we live in an information age, where knowledge is power. Everchanging software tools and along with it the advancement in information technology and the World Wide Web have given rise to the electronic libraries and digital libraries. The advent of computer and information technology tools, have helped us for better organizing of information resources and effective rendering of service, thus increasing the quality and quantity of value-added services in libraries and to fulfill the goal of library and information center to serve its community with well balanced, accessible and resourceful information faster. An attempt has been made to describe the digital information resources and services at the Raman Research Institute (RRI) library.

Keywords

Digital Libraries, Value-added Services, Resources.

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Vrinda J. Benegal ¹

Affiliations
1 Raman Research Institute, C.V. Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080, IN

Abstract

In the present electronic era, knowledge generation is mostly depend on the Internet. Knowledge is said to be doubling every two years and hence the preservation of scholarly information has become an important function for the libraries. This has opened up a new avenue for digital preservation and its access. The information landscape is moving rapidly from paper/print to electronic, where it becomes important to store the digital information for posterity. Ever changing technology and electronic storage media is a concern for conservation, maintenance and preservation of digitized collection of scientific literature. This paper provides a varied account of how archiving and digital preservation of information was done and furthermore an effort is being made to display RRI digital collections, archiving and preservation for larger use.

Keywords

Archiving, Copyright, Digitization, Digital Preservation, Digital Repository, Newspaper Clippings.

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