Browsing by Author "Das, Tapas Kumar"

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    Digitization, Strategies & Issues of Digital Preservation: An Insight View toVisva-Bharati Library
    (2010-05-11) Das, Tapas Kumar; Sharma, Ajay Kumar; Gurey, Pritam
    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.
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    Implications of Selection & Collection Policies for E-resources: With Special Reference to Visva- Bharati Library
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2010-02-18) Saha, Nimai Chand; Debnath, Kanika; Das, Tapas Kumar
    The value of information is more appreciated than ever. Information collections are no longer geographically bound. Most of the libraries have had some degree of success with web based resources and electronic journals. In these instances e-resource will integrate easily into the infrastructure. There is growing awareness and use of e-resource by academics and students. In view of the above, the present paper tries to highlight the types of e-resources, general criteria for selection of e-resource, licensing factor relating the e-resource acquisition, argument in favour of collecting the e-resource, etc. Finally the paper would like to disclose the strategy and present state of e-resource collection in the Visva-Bharati Library.