Building Digital Library using DSpace: Case Study of GIPE's Dhananjayarao Gadgil Digital Library.

Dhananjayarao Gadgil Library of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) has started building up the digital library collections by scanning its valuable rare books during July 2011. The GIPE's digital library uses open source software DSpace for building its digital repository. Currently, repository holds more than 7500 digital documents. These documents are available to all the scholars across the world. The present paper discusses the methodology adapted for its digital library building. The various processes involved were: Identification of the vendor, identifying the documents to be scanned or digitised, overall work flow, preparation of the metadata in excel, converting the data into Dublin Core XML format and then finally uploading the metadata into DSpace server. Unique feature of this digital library is the bulk upload of the metadata along with digital data files of all the digital documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]