Building a model for digital content management in agricultural university libraries in Bangladesh

Md Habibur Rahman ,Md Shiful Islam

doi:10.34105/j.kmel.2020.12.019

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to build a model for Digital Content Management (DCM) in agricultural university libraries in Bangladesh. The model focuses on identifying the necessary tools and techniques required for DCM and finding out the problems and prospects of DCM for enhancing resource sharing among the agricultural universities in Bangladesh. To investigate these issues, surveys were used to collect data from 245 participants, who were students and teachers from seven public agricultural universities in Bangladesh. The findings reveal some hindrances to the establishment of DCM, such as lack of constant power supply, limited bandwidth speed, some users have lacking fundamental IT knowledge and shortage of digital resources, in addition to some suggestions for improving DCM in these libraries. Based on the survey results and related literature, the DCM model for agricultural university libraries of Bangladesh has been proposed and discussed.

Highlights

The development and growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are rising rapidly (Hariyanto et al, 2020) and it has brought radical changes in every field of human activity
Based on the opinions and insights of the respondents, we proposed a model of Digital Content Management (DCM) for Agricultural University Libraries of Bangladesh for confirming effective and efficient information services to the patrons of agricultural university libraries of Bangladesh
digital content (DC) are used on a small scale in Bangladesh comparing with the printed materials as the number of DC is not sufficient in libraries

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Introduction

The development and growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are rising rapidly (Hariyanto et al, 2020) and it has brought radical changes in every field of human activity. “Over the last two decades, the libraries have witnessed the impact of information technology that has been affecting the structure of the services to a great extent" (Kaul, 2001). As library professionals have been habituated to operate traditional libraries. Nowadays, they have to work in an automated and digital environment. Library professionals are facing many difficulties to manage the digital library. Digital Content Management (DCM) is one of the problems of a digital library. Library professionals in the developing countries have been planning and trying to build a digital library

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