1. March 15, 2015 S. M. Zabed Ahmed Professor and Chair, Department of Information Science and Library Management, University of Dhaka and Librarian (Acting), Dhaka University Library Digital Library Consortia in Bangladesh: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions

2. Slide 2 What is a digital library?  A digital library is a focused collection of digital objects that can include text and audio/video materials stored in electronic media along with means for storing, organizing, and retrieving the files and media contained within.  Local resources Library management systems Local digitized collections  External resources Online publishers/aggregators Information retrieval systems Document delivery systems

3. Slide 3 What is DL consortium?  A DL consortium is a group of member institutions who partner to access external electronic resources, share digital content internally, and combine expertise and technology.  Why do we need a DL consortium? Cost-sharing Better negotiation with publishers Sharing digital publishing and archiving

4. Slide 4 Digital Library consortia in Bangladesh  Bangladesh INASP-PERI Consortium (BIPC)

5. Slide 5 BIPC usage statistics - 2014 (University of Dhaka)

6. Slide 6  HINARI  AGORA  OARE  AFDI  provides access to up to 45,000 peer-reviewed international scientific journals, books, and databases

7. Slide 7 DL Investment Study under HEQEP (2010)  Survey of the range of printed and digital resources utilized by the university libraries.  27 public and 13 private universities responded to the survey. Lack of print resources and journal subscription Lack of access to digital resources and digitization projects  User survey: Users are not generally satisfied with the current level of university subscribed e-resources. Difficulties includes limited number of titles, limited access to back issues, inability to access from home, limited access to computers and slow download speed

8. Slide 8 UGC Digital Library (UDL)  ACM Digital Library  Emerald eJournals (EM 120 + Engineering)  JSTOR

9. Slide 9 UGC Digital Library  eBooks Emerald eBook Series Oxford Scholarship Online Springer McGraw-Hill Pearson Cambridge University Press World Scientific Sage Taylor and Francis

10. Slide 10 Opportunities  Cooperative cataloguing Examples: COPAC (copac.ac.uk) Search25 (www.search25.ac.uk)  Digitization  Digital repositories Example: Shodhganga (http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/)  Remote access

11. Slide 11 Challenges  Sustainability Mandatory for all universities?  Cost-sharing 114 universities Equal or FTE or both

12. Slide 12 Future plan

13. Thank You!