Information Resources in Rajasthani Arts and Culture and their Digitization in Select Libraries of Jaipur

Abstract

The rapid development of digital technology and networking and its utilization
by all type of libraries (may be academic, cultural centers, museum,
etc.) responsible for the Rajasthani heritage collections, can prove to be useful
for paradigm shift in cross domain solutions to providing access to the contents of
those repositories.
A survey on the available information resources Rajasthani arts and culture
information resources revealed substantial information on collaborative activities
among university, institutes and museum of Rajasthan initiated by or involving
libraries in Rajasthan particularly. However, try to find out the information resources
available in print sources as well as digitized form of heritage collection.
The principal reasons responsible for digitization of heritage collection, specific
attributes of selected contents, way to manage data elements and information about
sharing of digitized works with other organization are the points discussed in the
study.