Regardless of current or future technologies, accessing digitally preserved information resources will always pose challenges. There is a plethora of models, standards and best practices addressing the different facets for the preservation of digital objects. The management of digital objects requires well-defined policies and data management plans that include all processes within their spe…
Cultural heritage print items in special collections hold distinct positions in libraries. Yet their potential for pedagogy and learning may often be under-explored due to issues related to preservation management. These challenges underpin their exclusivity, a perception which may impact donor relations and unconsciously impede research access. Conversely, electronic publishing has enhanced…
Traditional library practice focuses on print collections and developing collections of materials that have been published, which means the documents have gone through some kind of review or vetting process. This practice leaves a wide swath of potential knowledge out of the collection. For example, indigenous knowledge, beliefs, and experience are different, in that they do not undergo the …
India has the distinction of having one of the most ancient, richest and largest collections of manuscripts in the world. These manuscripts which are available in different forms, languages, scripts and cover a wide range of subjects are a powerful medium for the preservation of Indian cultural heritage. But the preservation of these manuscripts is a serious problem for the custodians of man…
Indigenous cultural heritage preservation: A review essay with ideas for the future
The digital library in the re-inscription of African cultural heritage
The digitization of the Freimann Collection, unique works belonging to the Wissenschaft des Judentums (Academic Study of Judaism), was a collaborative, international initiative to virtually reconstruct a cultural Jewish heritage collection that suffered losses during World War II. These works comprised the first engagement with pre-modern Jewish religious texts using modern research methods …
Currently, the Algerian National Library is striving to digitize Algerian cultural heritage. This exercise became imperative due to physical damage to manuscripts when they were handled during reading. This case study aims to shed light on the challenges of manuscripts and rare books digitization in the Algerian context. In addition, this paper clarifies the Algerian National Library’s asp…
To project the needs for conserving and preserving special collections in libraries, the Flanders Heritage Library foundation developed the Universal Procedure for Library Assessment (UPLA), a model for damage assessment. This tool allows libraries to independently survey the physical condition of their collections. It also provides Flanders Heritage Library with the opportunity to collect m…
The International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries 2005 (ICADL 2005), held in Bangkok, Thailand, 12–15 December 2005, was the 8th in a series of annual international conferences organized by digital library researchers in Asia. ICADL was set up to facilitate and stimulate the exchange of digital library research, information, and technology in the Asian region while also functioning as …
Purpose – Research, spanning half a century, points to the critical role of school administration and to the successful implementation of US government policies and programs. In part these findings reflect the times and a US educational governance system characterized by local control, a constitutionallyconstrained federal government, resource-poor state governments, and an overall system …
Librarianship is concerned with the activities to be performed in libraries in order to achieve the mission of providing right information to the right user at the right time. Only competent persons who had got some training related to the libraries can do the job efficiently and effectively. This need of training laid foundations of library science profession. Present paper highlights the n…
Abstract This paper attempts to examine the Concept of School Library its aims and functions, it also identified materials in a functional school library to include print and non-print materials such as, fictions, text books, reference books, periodicals and non print materials. It identified the problems of school library to include inadequate staffing, lack of information materials, infras…
This study aims at evaluating the services that libraries offer to the students of library and information management, measuring the extent to which these services are used from the students’ point of view as well as evaluating the adequacy of the practical training for them. In the course of this study, two hypotheses were tested. The first one focused on the compatibility between the se…
In terms of information access, the internet and the World Wide Web hold forth a historically unique chance for African universities to gain a more equal footing with their sister institutions in the West, yet most African universities are many years, possibly decades, away from reliable, robust ICT and adequate bandwidth. This paper will examine the ways in which the dearth and expense of band…
Abstract: This paper discusses steps taken by the author who served as a volunteer librarian in WOREM theological institute to train and equip clerics/participants who were students of the institute with library, literacy and research skills to enable them impact their community and harness religious historical data. It was discovered from an earlier research on clergy information needs tha…
Abstract: In many a developing world context like Uganda’s, evidence - literacy among legislators had been poor for many years. This had left both legislative debates and decision-making processes in Parliament to be driven more by personal opinion and political sentiments, rather than objective facts and empirical evidence. The introduction, however, of a pioneering and innovate Legislat…
Abstract: “Knowledge without boundaries” is an EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) motto that we are following. We have overcome these boundaries by “driving” information to the farmers’ yards in the villages in Macedonia. This paper presents the activities and outcomes of the project Library on wheels (Infobus) - library at will of the farmers. This mobile library provid…