Manual of Digital Libraries

Digital libraries are gaining popularity among library and information science professionals. This book describes the various facets of digital libraries in the present scenario. Contents include: Concept of Digital Libraries
• Digital Libraries: Components and Services
• Documents in Digital Libraries
• Internet and Internet Resources
• Cataloguing of Digital Resources: Metadata and Its Creation
• Digital Preservation
• Information Access in Digital Libraries
• Copyrights and Intellectual Property Rights
• Library Consortia
• E-learning and Digital Libraries
• Open Access and Institutional Repositories
• Open Source Software