Making the Invisible Visible: Content Development by Digitization of Evaporating Knowledge from Gujarat

Abstract

This paper deal with the various aspects related to digitization. The digital library is the widely accepted term discribing the use of digital technologies to acquire, store, preserve and provide access to information and material originally published in digitized from the existing print, audio-visual and other forms. The authors are discussing their plan to digitize rare and out of print books published before 1900 and available in over 100+ libraries in Gujarat and to digitize grey literature of research value published by above 1500 big and small R and D institutions and NGOs in Gujarat in all subject areas.