DIGITAL COLLECTION OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS FOR INSTITUTIONAL
REPOSITORY OF BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY USING DSPACE
BY
P.POTHUMPONNU
Supervisor
Dr. N. AMSAVENI
INTRODUCTION
 Digital material are stored, processed and transferred via digital
devices and networks. Digital services are delivered to users from
library by using software tools.
 The library has different vision in the minds of people from different
domains. There are a great number of definitions of digital library as
time being and many of them are formulated during the
implementation of digital library project.
 Some of the definitions are comprehensive while some of them focus
on one or more aspects of the digital library service.
 A digital library is a library consisting of digital materials and digital
services.
What is Institutional Repository?
IR consists of formally organized and managed collection of digital
content generated by faculty staff and students at an institution the
content of these repositories can be available for integration with on
campus library and course management system and can also be made
available to colleagues and students at other institutions ,as well to the
general public.
When we use the “term repositories” today we can be speaking about one of
many different technologies that support the storage and distribution of digital
content including:
1. collection based digital repositories managed by library professionals either
stand alone or aggregated.
2. course management systems and associated file stores.
3. Institutional file storage systems
4. Digital asset management workflow system. or
5. web content management systems used by institutions or departments to store
and stage web content
DSPACE
 DSpace is a OSS for creating digital library.
 DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) was developed
jointly by the MIT library and Hewlett-Packard
(HP) Labs..
 It captures, stores, indexes, preserves and
redistributes an organizations research material
formats.
 DSpace supports institutional repositories and
electronic records management.
 DSpace is being popularly used worldwide to meet
many digital archiving needs.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Information access through electronic media has
had a lot of impact on the Libraries and library
community. Almost all the librarians have been facilitated
to develop new strategy for managing the IT facilities.
Newspaper clippings service is the most important to any
academic library. Based on these thrusts the
Bharathidasan University Library is providing this
service to user community by the traditional way. The
researcher has observed the entire process and planned to
implement the newer technology to bring solution to this
service. Hence the researcher has selected the problems
as “Developing Digital collection of Newspaper clipping
for Institutional Repository of Bharathidasan University”
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Developing Digital Collection of Newspapers’ for Institutional Repository
of Bharathidasan University.
 To identify the daily news about Bharathidasan University in Printed
Papers Vs E-Papers.
 To provide wide access to the Library’s Online Newspapers collections.
 To Preserve Digital Intellectual Content for Present and Future use.
 To avoid Reversing Damage.
 To scan and convert the entire printed News Clippings in to the digital
format Using Digital HP Scanner.
 To preserve the News clippings related to Bharathidasan University and
affiliated Colleges News.
 To save the valuable shelf space.
 To create awareness among the Library Professionals about Online News
Clippings in Bharathidasan University Library
METHODOLOGY
Choosing Repository Software
There are three types of options available:
(a) Open Source Software
(b) Commercial Software and
(c ) Software Service Model
Open Source Software:
The software is free to download, but usually requires some level of
expertise to implement and maintain. A central governing body manages
the source code, but it is open for changes the development community
(for example, CDSware, DSpace, E-Prints, Fedora, Greenstone
Contd….
Commercial Software
Pay for the software and, optionally, any additional subscription or
consulting fees. You own the use of the software and, with a subscription,
get software upgrades. With a programming interface, or API, you can
customise the software, but the software vendor owns, creates, and
maintains the source code.
 Software Service Model
A software vendor owns and distributes a software platform, or also hosts
and manages your data for you. In this model, the software vendor
provides additional services for a fee, and also controls and updates the
software source code (examples are EPrints Services, Open Repository or
bepress). Implementers will want to choose the software that best matches
their needs and available resources (budget and staffing). For example,
institutions without significant technical expertise may want to look at
some of the commercial services available. In terms of open source
software platforms, each has its own unique strengths.
OSS Dspace for IR
The researcher has selected the suitable institutional repository software Dspace
(OSS) and installed Live CD in Linux Platform and also customized the
Community, Sub Community and Collection.
Requirements For Dspace
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Java SDK 1.4.2;
Apache 2.0.54;
Tomcat 5.0.28;
Apache Ant 1.6.5;
PostgreSQL 8.0.2 and
DSpace 1.4 alpha 1
Scope and Limitation
The researcher has covered only the library-subscribed
newspaper for the year of 2011and 2012. viz.,
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The Hindu
Indian Express
Dinathanthi
Dinakaran
Dinamalar
Dinamani and
Business line
Collection at BDU Institutional Repository
BDU Library IR provides the access to Scholarly publications, VC
Speeches, Question Bank and other resources.
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Audio Collection [57]
CD and DVD Collection [72]
Conference Publications [499]
Department Profile [6]
E-Books [32]
BDU Newsletter/Information Bulletin [6]
Electronic Theses and Dissertations [9]
Journal Articles/Scholarly Publications [275]
Lecture Presentation [7]
News Clippings [612]
Photos [145]
Project Reports [28]
Question Bank [1260]
Syllabus [3]
BDU and BDU Library Website
Newspapers Clippings Demo for accessing IR
http://172.16.110.39/jspui/password-login
Search Result
Search contd…
Full text of Scanned Clippings of VC News
FINDINGS
 Dspace (OSS) is a powerful software for building a repository by
its features of Metadata representation, searchable and
retrievable by the Web
 Librarians can provide services more effectively.
 The usefulness of IT in a library depends on how quickly and
easily users get the information.
 IR helps in achieving this purpose and information can be
acquired, processed, and distributed quickly, economically and
efficiently.
 BDU Library has implemented the Web-based, full-text news
clipping to our library users over its Intranet.
 The Repository is running well, being appreciated and used
extensively by Library patrons of BDU.
CONCLUSION
 Newspaper Clippings helps in providing the latest news and
archives to users posted at remote comers of the affiliated
colleges users, making them feel connected to the rest of the
Universities by reading the news about BDU.
 This service will be role model and useful in the design and
implementation of web based news clipping service in other
University Libraries
 As most libraries provides newspaper clipping service to its user
community, we suggest a web-based digital newspaper clippings
service.
THANK YOU
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