Digitization, Strategies & Issues of Digital Preservation: An Insight View toVisva-Bharati Library

The digital preservation is of utmost importance in order to maintain the mission of preserving a record for future use. Digital preservation is the management of digital information over time. This paper explores an initiation towards digitization in order to preserve the rich collection, mostly rare documents at Visva-Bharati Library. The authors tried to highlight the need of digital preservation, strategies and issues of its related as well as digital preservation activities carried out by VisvaBharati Library with intention to preserve the rare documents of the library.