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Unit 10: Digital and Virtual Libraries

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
4. ……………… is a concept familiar to librarians because it is one of the primary things that
librarians do—they create cataloguing records that describe documents.

5. ………………… are strings that uniquely identify digital objects and are part of any
document’s metadata.
6 …………….. are persistent URLs.

10.3 Directory of Digital Library Resources

You can understand the directory of Digital Library Resources from India and International
perspectives which is explained in below sections:

10.3.1 India

From the India perspectives, the directories of Digital Library Resources are as follows:

Archives of Indian Labour: Archives of Indian Labour was constituted with the long-term
objective to act as a specialised repository of records and voices of the workers, and
contain textual, visual and oral records on labour in India. At present, in total 8 special
collections comprising 40,000 printed pages, 100 hours of taped interviews are stored in
digital form. In addition, Several special reports and articles on labour history of India are
also available on this digital library. This library has been developed using Greenstone
open source software at V. V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida. Registration is required
to access the library.

Digital Library of India: Digital Library of India is a digital library of books, which are
free-to-read, searchable, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over
the Internet. Very soon it is expected that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian
Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves
and many more. This project is collaboration between different Indian institutes and
Universities and Carnegie Mellon University under Universal Digital Library Project.

Digital Library of Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode: Digital Library of Indian
Institute of Management, Kozhikode is developed by IIMK library holds documents on
management, economics, sociology, etc. and IIMK staff publications. The number of
documents included is less as the library is in development stage.
ETD at Indian Institute of Science: ETD at Indian Institute of Science is the digital repository
of Theses and Dissertations of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. You can search,
browse and access theses and dissertations from this collection. This repository has been
developed to capture, disseminate and preserve research theses of Indian Institute of
Science.
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts [IGNCA] Digital Library: IGNCA digital
library contains digital images, audio and video recordings, animations, electronic books,
etc. related Indian arts and culture.

Librarian’s Digital Library [LDL]: Librarian’s Digital Library has been developed by
DRTC, which contains full text of papers/articles related to Indian Librarianship. Presently,
it contains full text papers submitted in DRTC seminars, papers submitted by LIS
professionals and Students Theses/Dissertations. In future, it is having plans to include
conference proceedings of Indian LIS associations.

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