Developing sustainable digital libraries : socio-technical perspectives / [edited by] Tariq Ashraf, Jaideep Sharma, Puja Anand Gulati.

Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2010], ©2010.

xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.