Digital Content Creation and Management in Agricultural Libraries in India: Issues and Trends

Many Indian libraries have taken up the challenge of modernisation to develop the machine readable catalogues, and machine readable full-text databases to provide greater accessibility to full text documents of different nature in order to provide seamless information to their users. The paper examines the status of the digitisation of agricultural libraries in India and the role of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research in developing new digital initiatives in content creation and agricultural digital library management. It elaborates upon the tools and technologies required for agricultural digital libraries management.