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.
Suber, Peter; Nair, R Raman; Hussain, K H(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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The importance of doctoral dissertations, the extend of public fund utilized for their production,
need for their open access, concepts of Open Access and the arguments for and against it are discussed
in detail. A brief historical outline of the attempts in India for digitizing and providing Open Acess
to Doctoral Dissertations is provided. The development of the Open Access Digital Archives of
Mahatma Gandhi University is examined as an opportunity for other implementers and developers
to gain both technical and non-technical insight. Recommendations for establishing a national agency
for ensuring OA to doctoral dissertations produced in Indian universities is provided. Discussion on
Open Access Initiative and the creation of OA Archives of Dissertations at MGU can reveal to other
intuitions in India that it is not a costly or difficult task as generally considered. The paper can
infuse interest and confidence to universities and research institutions in India to provide OA to
their research works.
Pahari, Sanjukta Ray(INFLIBNET Center, February 25, 2009)
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Much of what a man is pertains to his imagination. Indeed, imaginary are his hopes, his intentions,
his ideas of himself. People dream of their lives and live on their dreams. The dividing line between
living and dreaming is not always clear. Films are collective dream of society. They provide society
with mythologies or patterns of behaviour. However, the mass appeal of the movies is a clear indication
that most people today respond in one way or another to the dream like fantasies projected on the
screen. It is necessary to grasp the significance of the preservation of movies in the life of the
people. Preservation of cinema is no doubt the issue that haunts cinema preservationist, archivist
librarians at the moment.