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Unit 10: Digital and Virtual Libraries

Notes
Reports on the results of scientific voyages (H.M.S. Challenger).
Educational Records published by the Govt. of India since colonial days.
Reports and Surveys of the flora and fauna of the British India.
Atlases (both historical and Geographical)
Imperial Gazetteer of India.

Natural history of plants.
Books on Art, Architecture and Painting.
Writings of the Viceroys and Governor-Generals.
Biographies.

English Factory Records.
Religious literature pertaining to temple, Gurudwara and Mosque.
English literature on Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw.
Books on Sanskrit and Hindi literature, history.

Books written by medieval writers and travellers.
Laboratory results from different laboratories of India on scientific subjects and
many more...
Punjab University Library Initiative

The Punjab University Library started digitization of its collection in the year 2003 as per
the guidelines provided by National Manuscripts Mission; (NMM) established by
Department of Culture, Government of India with an objective to preserve, conserve and
upgrade the manuscripts through digitization and digitize preservation. In order to harness
the knowledge embedded in the Manuscripts and to preserve the cultural heritage of our
national the digitization process was commenced. Both national and international users
make use of the manuscripts for the research purpose. This use increased manifold with
the onset of digitization. Although the digitized collection of manuscripts is presently not
available on Punjab University website, still efforts are being made to put them on web
using D-space software.
Questions

1. Write down the case facts.
2. What do you infer from it?
Source: http://infoz.ffzg.hr/INFuture/2009/papers/210%20Chhatwal,%20Kanwal,
%20Lal,%20Digital%20Heritage%20Archiving%20in%20India.pdf

10.7 Summary

The relatively recent use of the term “digital library” resulted from the Digital Libraries
Initiative funded by the National Science Foundation, the Advanced Research Projects
Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States.

DLs ideally provide a coherent view of all of the information contained within a library,
no matter its form or format.

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