COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL RESOURCES: SOME ISSUES

Collection development is a dynamic and continuous activity. It involves the users, the library staff and the subject experts on selection team. Collection development is a means to develop need based, up to date and balanced collection fit to meet the documents and information needs of the users. It means collection must meet the requirements of the users. The collection of library must be developed on a proper line. The efficiency of any library service is governed largely by quantity and quality of its collection. In today's modern information technology era, most of the information is available in digital form. Many organizations are designing and developing digital libraries. As compared to traditional library, digital library requires different set of skills and competencies to handle a digital collection. The present paper discusses in details the importance of digital resource, digital library and collection development. It highlights the procedure of developing a digital collection with reference to born digital and in house digital resources.