Abstract:
Research Objectives: The aim of this paper is to provide general guidelines for design of a low cost digital library providing services that are most frequently required by various categories of special library users in developing countries. This paper also aims at illustrating strategies and method approaches that can be adopted for building such projects. The paper intends to describe the phases and stages required for building such projects from scratch. It also aims at highlighting the barriers and obstacles facing Arabic content and how could such problems overcome.
Methodology / Approach: A system design approach is to be used for the design of the proposed digital library. This approach can be defined as the planning of the procedures to be used in an experimental study. In this approach, each phase consists of a number of stages, each stage is subdivided into steps and each step further contains a series of tasks. Consequently, the total work is broken down into manageable portions. This approach can even be applied to recognize if a specific plan achieves a preferred goal.
Findings and conclusion: This paper has put today’s technology into practice and has exploited the latest advanced technology in this domain for developing special library services by designing a low cost digital library service as a practical solution. The outcomes have proven encouraging as the design has been shown to be cost effective. The design has also demonstrated that the digital library developed in this paper can assist to a large degree in developing the services provided to special library users in Libya.
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