The digital preservation is of utmost importance in order to maintain the mission of preserving a
record for future use. Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. This
paper explores an initiation towards digitization in order to preserve the rich collection, mostly rare
documents at Visva-Bharati Library. The authors tried to highlight the need of digital preservation,
strategies and issues of its related as well as digital preservation activities carried out by Visva-
Bharati Library with intention to preserve the rare documents of the library.
Mandal, Achintya K; Nandi, Subodh Gopal(Inflibnet centre, February 8, 2007)
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Abstract:
The present study discusses on the digital library initiatives on the light of
keystone principles. It includes open source software, and open source library
software. This study analyses webliazer, an open source software as
measuring tool of the digital library usage. It highlights on various methods
of improvement, updation procedure of the digital library by using server log
file analysis for proper maintenance of the library homepage by exploiting
the user feedback at Visva-Bharati Library.