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Qiqqa is award winning Research and PDF Management Software.

Rāmamālā Library Manuscript project, Bangladesh

The Rāmamālā Library Project is a small pilot project sponsored by the British Library's Endangered Archive Programme, with additional support from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies and the Schoenberg Center for Manuscript Studies.




Limitations and ethical implications of digitizing medieval manuscripts
Digital technologies have found a use in almost every aspect of scholarly research and communication. Though the Internet proves advantageous by increasing access, it can also be detrimental to researchers. By solely encountering medieval manuscripts through a computer screen, users sacrifice the visceral experience that accompanies viewing the actual manuscript. This article seeks to identify limitations and ethical implications encountered when digitizing medieval manuscripts.
Library Student Journal: April (2011)

The Mission of Librarians is to Empower

Librarians empower:

• Individuals – Librarians help individuals gain new knowledge, answer questions, access expensive resources, use computer networks, and so many other things that help them to realize more of their personal potential.
• Organizations – Librarians make organizations more effective by providing the information services they need to use their human and physical resources to their fullest potential.
• Communities – Librarians create and manage community resources that make communities more powerful and resilient.
• Society – Librarians collect, manage, preserve, and provide access to the resources required for individuals to contribute to society as informed citizens regardless of their financial resources or social status within the community.

Librarians empower by :

• Increasing knowledge – This is perhaps what we are best known for — providing the books and articles and other resources that our users need to increase their knowledge.
• Providing access to tools – Libraries have frequently branched out to providing access to tools, whether it be a popular tool lending library or more recently in-house access to expensive 3D printers.
• Providing access to networks – Since shortly after the Internet came into the collective consciousness, libraries have been front-and-center in providing access to this network to those who couldn’t afford access to it at home. And we still are.
• Assisting in skill development – With the economic crash in recent years libraries have been the “go to” place to reskill and find a new job. This role will likely only increase in the future, and we’ve even seen a public library recently offer a way for high school dropouts to earn their diploma. Where there’s a gap in services to help people to get ahead, you often see librarians stepping in to fill the void.
• Add your method here – Society evolves, and librarians evolve with it. Although those of us on the front lines of adoption didn’t feel this way at the time, librarians actually flocked to the Internet much faster and in greater numbers than many professions did. Just look at Realtors® if you don’t believe me. So I have great confidence in the ability of librarians to adapt and to continue to offer services that our users find compelling.

http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2014/01/roy-tennant-digital-libraries/mission-librarians-empowerment