Manuscript is a hidden literature or knowledge to the present generation. The present human
civilization is nothing but published information. The other side of the coin most of us not aware
is the story of knowledge not published and remains in manuscripts. Securing, processing and
protecting such valuable documents is the primary duty of the present information systems.
The paper discusses about digital preservation, current and future trends, collection and details
about ongoing digitization of manuscripts program in Organization of Libraries, Museums and
Documents Centre of Astan Quds Razavi Library of Iran and how manuscripts is available for
users ultimately it concludes with suggestions and referen
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Abstract:
An attempt has been made to determine the present status of familiarity and use of Digital
resources. It was felt that use of digital resources is still poor among the medical students
of the Universities in the developing countries. This paper presents survey to investigate
the familiarity and use of Digital resources by students through online and offline Information
Databases of the Central Library, “Central Library Books & Journals Database (CLBJD),
and the CD-ROMs databases available in the academic libraries (MUI). The subjects of
this study were the students of the Isfahan Medical University. For evaluating study questions
and data collection, the questionnaire was distributed to a random sample of 250 students.
The result of this survey are presented and discussed in the paper.