Public libraries in Karnataka to use cloud technology
MYSURU: In a unique initiative, the department of public libraries will set up cloud-based digital libraries to help around 10 lakh students in government high schools and pre-university colleges in the state. Students can access national and international publications at their institutions.
Apart from government schools and colleges, this technology will also be used in 26 city central libraries and 216 taluk libraries which come under the department.
Apart from government schools and colleges, this technology will also be used in 26 city central libraries and 216 taluk libraries which come under the department.
The department had created the advanced Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected software. A user or member who accesses documents through cloud technology cannot save, copy, delete, send or print documents. She can to refer the document only for 15 days.
Department of Public Libraries director Satish Kumar S Hosamani said the project is being initiated at a cost of Rs 5 crore. Students from Class 1 to Class 12 can access information in their classrooms. School and college heads will be given a user id by which students can access information.
“The department has digitised its books and documents in Haveri, Raichur, Chamarajanagar and Tumakuru district central public libraries with the support of Kerala-based Sai Sanjeevini Trust free of cost,” he said.
Hosamani said students can access DSERT and NCERT books, competitive exams books, previous years question papers free of cost.
“There are issues with regard to copyright during digitising. At a publishers’ meet at Kalaburagi recently, all 101 writer-participants agreed to provide soft copies of their books for digitising and uploading to the cloud,” Hosamani said.
University of Mysore’s department of library and information science chairperson Khaiser Jahan Begum told TOI it’s a good initiative in which maintenance cost is low and cost-effective.
“Libraries should change to keep pace with changing technology. In developed countries, libraries have adopted artificial intelligence. It’s a positive development where libraries operations are done through the cloud. Public libraries and government schools and colleges should be IT-enabled,” she said.
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