Design & Implementation of Digital Library for Research & Education Institutions in Sudan

The aim of this research is to design and implement a digital library system for Sudanese research and education libraries to be compatible with international standards and based on free and open sources software. The system uses Personal Home Page language to design user interface, Mysql to create database, and Apache Server to operate Internet pages. The cataloging module was designed and implemented according to the international standard Machine Readable Catalog (MARC). It contained 350000 bibliography records which were collected from different eight Sudanese universities. The digital files saving module was designed and implemented to store different files (text, video, audio) in a compressed format to reduce storage space and facilitate file transferring across different media and networks. In addition, the public searching module was designed and implemented to search in multiple international libraries at the same time using one interface. Finally, each module of the digital library system was tested and operated successfully