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| Acknowledgment |
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Chapter 1 Design and Development Considerations for a Multilingual Digital Library |
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Chapter 2 Integration of Digital Reference Service for Scholarly Communication in Digital Libraries |
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Chapter 3 Digital Preservation: Principles and Policies |
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Chapter 4 Preservation of Digital Information in Library and Information Centers |
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Chapter 5 Perspectives of Digital Library Evaluation: Methodology from Marketing of Services for Information Services |
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Chapter 6 Towards Arab Digital Libraries: Opportunities, Challenges, and Requirements |
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Kawther Mohammed Al-Hashmi |
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Chapter 7 Stone Inscriptions of Srinagar: A Digital Panorama |
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Chapter 8 Digital Library Initiatives in India |
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Chapter 9 Digital Library Education: India and Abroad |
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Chapter 10 Digital Library: An Emerging Paradigm Towards Open Access |
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Chapter 11 Open Content: An Inference for Developing an Open Information Field |
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Chapter 12 A Lost Dimension in the Open Scholarly World: Authors' Experiences and Open Access Publishing |
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Chapter 13 Emerging Trends in OAI-PMH Application |
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Chapter 14 The Concept of Metadata for Digital Information Resources with Special Reference to Dublin Core (DC) |
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Chapter 15 Significance of Metadata |
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Chapter 16 Strategies and Issues of Institutional Repositories: An Indian Scenario |
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Chapter 17 Digital Repositories as Harbingers of Open Access in India: A Study |
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Chapter 18 Institutional Repositories Initiatives in India: A Study |
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Chapter 19 Building Repository Banking and Finance (ReBaF): A Case Study in the Library of STIE Perbanas Surabaya |
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Chapter 20 Strategic Approach to 24/7 Services: Best Practices for "Gateway to Nyack Hospital Medical Library Resources" in a Digital Era |
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Chapter 21 Empowering LIS Professionals and Academic Library Users in a Networked and Digital Environment: A Case Study of Rabindra Library, Assam University, Silchar |
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Chapter 22 Information Seeking Behavior of Users and Strategies to Overcome the Challenges in the Current Era |
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Chapter 23 Information Seeking Behavior in Digital Environments and Libraries in Enhancing the Use of Digital Information |
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Chapter 24 Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Physically Challenged Students and Faculty of the University of Delhi: A Study |
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Chapter 25 Information Literacy: A Tool of Empowerment for the People of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh |
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Chapter 26 Impact of ICT on the Changing Roles of the Librarian, Other Library and Information Science (LIS) Professionals, and Managerial Change |
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Chapter 27 ICTs in Libraries: Prospects and Challenges |
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Chapter 28 BTISNet: Biotechnology Information Network for Biological Scientific Community |
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Chapter 29 E-Books: Reader, Librarian, and Publisher Perspectives |
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Chapter 30 Copyright Relevancy at Stake in Libraries of the Digital Era |
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| Compilation of References |
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| About the Contributors |
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| Index |
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