Developing Information Services for Special Library Users in the Arabic Speaking World by Designing of a Low Cost Digital Library: The Experiment of the National Oil Corporation-Digital Library

Bonnie Tijerina November 8th, 2009

The aim of this paper is to provide general guideline 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. Seeing the importance of designing an inexpensive digital library as basic principle for the design accordingly, the utilisation of today’s ICTs and freely available open sources software is the right path for accomplishing such goal. 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

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