SUBJECT - EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Seminar on

E - LIBRARY
Guided by
Presented by
R.MANJUNATH
Yashaswini P S
Reg.No; ED211655 Assistant Professor
1st Student trainee Department of Educatiom
JSS Institution of education, JSS Institute of education (B.Ed.)
Sakleshpur College, Sakaleshpur, Hassan.
SL.NO TITLES

1 INTRODUCTION

2 DEFINITIONS

3 COMPONENTS OF DIGITAL LIBRARY

4 FUNCTION OF DIITAL LIBRARY

5 ADVANTAGES

6 LIMITATIONS

7 CONCLUSION

8 REFERENCE
 INTRODUCTION
o Nowadays everybody is talking about Digital libraries. In this age of
information technology its impossible to read a library journal or attend a library
conference or even have a chat with other libraries without hearing the term “
digital library” or “Electronic library”. So librarians must have an understanding
of what a digital library is and how it is designed and implemented.
 A Digital library is a special library with a
focused collection of digital library objects
that can include text, visual material, audio
material, video material, stored as electronic
media formats, along with means for
organizing, storing and retrieving the files
and media contained in the library.
 The electronic content may be stored locally
or accessed remotely via computer net
works. An electronic library is a type of
information retrieval system.
 DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
 The term digital library was evolved in early 1970S.
 The first application of digital library concept was associated with
character-coded storage and full text indexing of legal and scientific
documents.
 The legal information through electronic( LITE)system was the first digital
library implemented by the US a Air Force in 1967.
 The recent development in digital library can be attributed to Internet and
web technology, which can act as a media of information presentation and
delivery.
 WHAT IS E - LIBRARY
 The term Digital library is a shift from the earlier term electronic library
which was used for the last two decades to describe the book less library.
 A digital library is a collection of information that is stored and accessed
electronically.
 The purpose of a digital library is to provide a central location for accessing
information on a particular topic.
 Here two things are important. First, it’s a collection of information. Second
point is information is stored and accessed electronically.
 Digital library is libraries without walls. Its also called on online library, an
internet library
 Digital library is collection of online database of digital object that can
include test, image, audio, video, digital documents or other digital media.
 A digital library is popularly viewed as an electronic version of a library
where storage is in digital form.
 Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope, and can be
maintained by individuals or organizations.
COMPONENTS OF DIGITAL LIBRARY
Components of a Digital Library Components required for
a digital library can broadly be categorized into the
following components
 Collection Infrastructure: The collection infrastructure
typically consists of two components, i.e. metadata and
digital objects.
The metadata provides bibliographic or index information
for the digital objects. While digital objects are the
primary documents that users are interested to access, it
is metadata that facilitates their identification and
location using a variety of search techniques.
 Digital Resource Organization
 Access Infrastructure: This includes Search and
Browsing Interface which facilitate Simple Search and
Advanced Search with wild cards, phrase searches and
field- specific searches.
 Computer and Network Infrastructure: It includes
hardware and software requirements. Servers, Nodes,
Printers, Scanners, Digital Camera, Sound Recorders,
etc. is the hardware requirement whereas System
Software, Application Software, OCR Software, File
Format converter, Web server, Database software,
Antivirus, Networking software, Image enhancing,
Compressing software are software requirements
 Intellectual Property Rights and Digital Rights
Management: Digital Rights Management (DRM)
refers to the technologies and processes that are
applied to describe the digital content and to identify
the user.
This can be achieved through
1. Log-in ID and Password-based Access
2. IP Based access
3. Product Activation
4. Control of the Interface
5. Digital Watermarking
 Digital Library Services
The major digital library services include
 OPAC to web PAC
 Digital Reference Service
 Library Chat Rooms
 Electronic Delivery Services
 Virtual Library Tours
 Ask-A-Librarian
 Real Time Services
 Bulletin Boards
 Web-based User Education Web Forms
 RSS Feeds
Traditional Library
 Print collection.
 Stable, with slow evolution.
 Individual objects not
directly linked with each
other.
 Flat structure with minimal
contextual metadata.
 Scholarly content with
validation process.
 Limited access points and
centralized management.
 The physical and logical
organization correlated.
 One way interactions
Digital Library
 All resources in digital form.
 Dynamic and ephemeral.
 Multi-media and fractal
objects.
 Scaffolding of data structures
and richer contextual
metadata.
 More than scholarly content
with various validation
processes.
 Unlimited access points,
distributed collections and
access control.
 The physical and logical
organization may be virtually.
 Dynamic real-time dialogue
 FUNCTION OF DIGITAL LIBRARY
 Access to large amounts of information to users
wherever they are and whenever they need it.
 Access to primary information sources.
 Support multimedia content along with text .
 Network accessibility on Intranet and Internet.
 User-friendly interface .
 Hypertext links for navigation .
 Client-server architecture .
 Advanced search and retrieval.
 Integration with other digital libraries.
 ADVANTAGES
A digital library is not confined to a particular location or so called building
it is virtually distributed all over the world. The user can get his/ her
information on his own computer screen by using the internet. Actually it is
a network of multimedia system, which
1. No physical boundary: the user of a digital library need not to go to the
library physically, people from all over the world could gain access to the
same information, as long as an internet connection is available.
2. Round the clock availability: digital libraries can be accessed at any time,
24 hours a day and 365 days of the year
3. Multiple accesses: the same resources can be used at the same time by a
number of users.
4. Structured approach: digital library provides access to much richer
content in a more structured manner i.e. We can easily move from the
catalog to the particular book then
5. Information retrieval: the user is able to use any search term bellowing to
the word or phrase of the entire collection. Digital library will provide very
user friendly interfaces, giving click able access to its resources.
6. Preservation and conservation: an exact copy of the original can be made
any number of times.
7. Space: whereas traditional libraries are limited by storage space, digital
libraries have the potential to store much more information, simply because
digital information requires very little physical space to contain them. When
the library had no space for extension digitization is the only solution
8. Networking: a particular digital library can provide the link to any other
resources of other digital library very easily thus a seamlessly integrated
resource sharing can be achieved.
9. Cost - the cost of maintaining a digital library is much lower than that of a
traditional library. A traditional library must spend large sums of money
paying for staff, book maintains, rent, and additional books.
 DISADVANTAGES
The computer viruses, lack of standardization for digitized information, quick
degrading properties of digitized material, different display standard of
digital product and its associated problem, health hazard nature of the
radiation from monitor etc. Makes digital
1. Copyright: - digitization violates the copy right law as the thought content
of one author can be freely transfer by other without his acknowledgement.
So one difficulty to overcome for digital libraries is the way to distribute
information.
2. Speed of access: - as more and more computer are connected to the internet
its speed of access reasonably decreasing. If new technology will not
evolve to solve the problem then in near future internet will be full of error
messages.
3. Initial cost is high: - the infrastructure cost of digital library i.e. The cost
of hardware, software; leasing communication circuit is generally very.
4. Band width: - digital library will need high band for transfer of multimedia
resources but the band width is decreasing day by day due to its over
utilization.
5. Efficiency: - with the much larger volume of digital information, finding the
right material for a specific task becomes increasingly.
6. Environment: - digital libraries cannot reproduce the environment of a
traditional library. Many people also find reading printed material to be
easier than reading material on a computer screen.
7. Preservation: - due to technological developments, a digital library can
rapidly become out-of-date and its data
 CONCLUSION
 Libraries have always played a significant role in society, and digital
libraries with the promise of breaking the barriers of geographical distance,
language and culture, have a potentially even more significant social role.
Digital libraries will not only change our reading and information use
habits, they are also going to bring major changes in the economic models
of information generation, distribution and management functions.
 A tremendous amount of research and development activity has gone into
the study of digital libraries. Many issues have been addressed and
problems have been partly or fully resolved. Researchers from a variety of
disciplines, such as library and information science, computer science and
engineering, social sciences and humanities are working closely together to
look into the myriad of unresolved issues.
 Digital libraries are not going to replace the physical existence of document
completely but no doubt to meet the present demand, to satisfy the non local
user digitization must be introduced so that at least libraries becomes of
hybrid nature. The initial cost of digitization is high but experiment shows
that once digitization is introduced then the cost to manage this collection
will be cheaper.
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