Building an Arabic digital collection: the IIUM Library’s experience

Abdullah, Sarifah (2006) Building an Arabic digital collection: the IIUM Library’s experience. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4312. pp. 527-528.

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Abstract

The IIUM Library’s mission is to be an excellent information centre providing information to meet the learning, teaching, and research needs of its customers. The Library gives special attention to Islamic studies and its information resources are predominantly in English and Arabic. To make the resources readily accessible “anytime” and “anywhere” heavy investments were made in a digital library system that implements the latest ICT advancement. The need for Arabic language capabilities has always been one of the Library’s major requirements. This paper shares the Library’s experience in implementing a digital library system, focusing on the challenges in handling Arabic language information resources.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	365
Uncontrolled Keywords:	digital libraries, online service information industry, libraries automation, International Islamic University Malaysia
Subjects:	Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources > ZA4050 Electronic information resources
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Depositing User:	Sarifah Abdullah
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2011 09:05
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2014 21:28
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/365

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