Digital Archival Initiative of Self Financed Institutions in Greater Noida: A Study

The invention of new technologies has been fulfilled the dreams of human life. After the advent of Information Technology (IT) the situations began changed, the printed information started to be digitized and made available to use through the help of computer devices and networks. The pace of globalization and the growth of new technologies, such as the internet, have been changing the teaching learning methods in schools, colleges, universities and research institutes. Digitization is a labor-intensive process by which physical or manual records are converted into digital form. Data digitization services offer a very good opportunity for India, due to the relatively lower costs and technical skills available. In the Greater Noida institutional area only 20% libraries have been using digital library software, 80% libraries have not till used; they are using only library automation software. All of them 60% have an under processing digital library where just 40% have an existing digital library. Their digital archrivals have been initiated by the library staffs with support of the IT staffs. A few libraries have used cooperation of resource sharing where none of them have used the support of an expert for their initiative. Almost 85% users have already benefited by the digital resources. The study found that digital resources are more useful than the printed resourced in the different stages in research and almost users need their libraries to be fully digitalized