Digital Archival Strategies for Library Consortia: The IIM Consortium Experience

Abstract

A library's digital information collection development objective is not far from its original mandate, ie, to select, acquire, manage, preserve adn finally archieve those digital/ electronic materials, which will support the current curricular and research needs of the parent institution or organization to which it it attached. There is a paradigm shift, both from the approaches of the users as well as in their access facilities. In most of our endowed campuses and research centres teh user community have access to digital information using personal computers in their offices, the libraries, computer centres, Net Kiosks, etc. Consequently, the Libraries provide (or rather forced to provide) acess to a wide variety of materials using an equally wide variety of access mediums to meet the user needs. In the process teh library not only give seamess access to the uers a wide variety of materials using an equally wide variety of mediums to meet the user needs. Unless stae of art strategies ...