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Abstract:
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The age of digital technology has revolutionised communications. It is
used and enjoyed by all strata of society for business, education, research,
and entertainment. Digitisation of information is of particular relevance to
business. Organizations must learn how to use information effectively, as
competition will keep increasing and profit margins will be under
pressure. Information should be stored in a manner that the retrieval is
quick and storage safe and permanent. Paper records, books, journals and
reports are not very handy as compared to CD-ROMs when it comes to
looking for a particular piece of information. It may take, some times,
weeks to compile the results, using traditional records. So, we are looking
at digitisation as a solution for the coming years. The digital collections
must include genre of library materials such as text (books, serials,
dissertations/theses), numeric database (statistical/scientific) and special
collections (image, audio, video, manuscript etc.). In this paper, the author
focuses on the meaning of digitization, benefits of digitization,
application area and digitisation process. |