Digital Library and Digitization.

This paper discusses the digital library as an assemblage of digital computing, storage, and communications machinery together with the content and software needed to reproduce, emulate and extend the services. Definition of digital library, what is digitization, need for digitization, digitization process, problems in digitization, hardware and software for digitization, challenges of library professional, challenges of digitization of library, role of library professionals, digital library: initiatives and the future of digital libraries in India are included in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]