Title: Analytical Survey on Digital Preservation and Techniques among Engineering Education Institutional Libraries in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh
Abstract: IntroductionDigital preservation is a broad, evolving, and important1 facet of digital asset management, yet often overlooked by library administration and understated in library operations. Digital preservation2 refers to all of the actions required to maintain access to digital materials beyond the limits of media failure or technological change. Those digital materials may be records created during the day-to-day business of an organization;born-digital materials created for a specific purpose (e.g. teaching resources); or the products of digitization projects. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical survey of digital preservation, techniques and constraints faced by engineering education institutional libraries at Rayalaseema region of Andhrapradesh.Review of LiteratureRoland, Lena (2012)3 investigates the challenges of preserving information in the digital age, and explores how this may affect the future of historical knowledge. The study is based on a series of semi-structured interviews with forty-one historians, archivists, librarians, and web researchers. While the results reject the idea of a single 'digital black hole' in historical records, they emphasize the importance of the issue for the future of history, and the complexity of the solutions to be adopted. The need for planning, for education, and for cooperation between historians and the information professions is also emphasized. Kastellec, Mike (2012)4 examines factors that limit the ability of institutions to digitally preserve the cultural heritage of the modern era. The author takes a wide-ranging approach to shed light on limitations to the scope of digital preservation. The authors find that technological limitations to digital preservation have been addressed but still exist, and that non-technical aspects-access, selection, law, and finances-move into the foreground as technological limitations recede. The authors propose a nested model of constraints to the scope of digital preservation and conclude that costs are digital preservation's most pervasive limitation. Katre, Dinesh (2012)5 provides a comparison between the American and Indian digital preservation programmes based on the essential building blocks such as national legislation for digital preservation, basic legal framework, national digital preservation initiative, digital preservation tools, standards and practice guidelines, digital repository infrastructure, and audit and certification. Selected digital preservation policies of the organizations from UK, USA, Canada, and Australia are also analyzed. The gap analysis shows that in the Indian context, legislation on digital preservation of electronic records and institutional digital preservation policies are the missing elements, which need to be addressed on high priority. Singh, Anil (2012)6 examines the potential for preserving Indian's cultural heritage resources in a digital world and making it globally accessible. The paper discusses the initiatives taken by Indian government for digital preservation of cultural heritage resources and manuscripts.ObjectivesThe objective of this survey is to make an analysis on the Digital Preservation of Engineering Education Institutional Libraries in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh. Other objectives of the study are:* To examine various digital preservation objects used in engineering education institutional libraries under study.* To identify different types of preservation techniques relied upon by the librarians, of respective institutions.* To survey on data about best supported operating system in preservation of digital library.* To assess and identify the constraints faced by the librarians under survey on digital library preservation.* To offer suggestion towards digital preservation issues.Limitation* The study covers the attempts of the engineering educational institutions established before the year July 2010. …
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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