Boundaries for The Boundless: Modernising Digital Libraries – Anna University Initiatives

Abstract

“All that glitters is not gold” goes the saying. This paper deals lucidly with the efforts and other associated hardship and difficulties encounted in the making of a digital library at Anna University. The author has highlighted in the preamble about the geneses of the University with an introduction about the University library. All the concepts, the design components, services and uses of the established Digital library initiatives have all been discussed in detail. The difficulties faced in the making of the digital library have also been dealt with in the paper. Last but not the least, a few valuable suggestions to make the digital library more pervasive and usable by all the users have also been well suggested for the posterity. In a nutshell, this paper illustrates the” digital experience” of the University library.