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
Saikia, Rekha Rani; Kalita, Binita(INLIBNET Centre, March 2, 2011)
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The paper enlightens how to preserve the manuscript collections in digital environment. Considering
the importance of manuscript as a source of historical & cultural information it is important to
initiate projects aimed to preserving them and making them accessible in ICT environment to
information seekers. The study goes into depth to investigate the digitization process of manuscript
collections in KKH Library along with digitizing tools, software, digitizing work flow etc.