Digital Technologies are making inroads into the system of education all over the world bringing information and education closer and closer day by day. As a result more and more educational institutions are being transformed into virtual campuses. Digital libraries are emerging as substitute to the traditional libraries with enhanced facilities at a lower cost. It may be said that the infrastructure does not exist suitably to be benefitted equally from the technology at present but a precedent may be taken of the expansion of computer in the same conditions. Once developed and connected, the digital libraries will supercede all the traditional libraries of today reducing them to merely the museums of books. The book presents a brief account of the changing international scenario of higher education as a result of the technological innovations and study the impact of digital technology on the libraries of some selected universities of USA, UK, Australia and India. It is also aimed at assessing the problems and prospects of digital libraries for the institutions of higher education. The book will be useful for the students and faculty of library and information science, working librarians and information professionals, educationists and all those persons who are interested in recording and retrieval of information through the modern means.

Preface
1. The Higher Education Scenario
2. IT in Higher Education
3. University Libraries of the Future
4. Education and the Digital Libraries
5. Digital Library Resources and Projects
6. Universal /Digital Library
7. Oxford Digital Library
8. California digital Library
9. Harvard University Digital Library
10. Digital Library of Georgia
11. Indian University Digital Library
12. digital Library Projects in the Australian Universities
Bibliography
Glossary

Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service carer from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian ( in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King abdulaziz City for science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel ) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is a Council Member of the India Library Association. Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He is a recognized Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and Information Science. The other books authored by him and brought out by the Leading publishers of the countryu include:

1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperbackeditions)
4. Learning in the Information Age
5. Infomedia in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2vols)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2vols).
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News Media
13. Libraries and librarians of the World
14. Builders of the Global Village

ISBN	8170004292
Year of Publication	2005
Binding	HardBound
Pages	259
Edition
Language	English

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Digital Libraries in Higher Education

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