Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems

The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Library’s mission is to be an excellent information centre providing information to meet the learning, teaching, and research needs of its customers. Its information resources are predominantly in English and Arabic, with a minor portion in Malay,...

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Main Authors:	Abdullah, Sarifah, Marsidi, Suhaila
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2006
Subjects:	ZA Information resources ZA4050 Electronic information resources
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/1/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/1/1/digitization_of_arabic_materials-final.doc

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spelling	iium-12014-05-16T08:22:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/1/ Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems Abdullah, Sarifah Marsidi, Suhaila ZA Information resources ZA4050 Electronic information resources The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Library’s mission is to be an excellent information centre providing information to meet the learning, teaching, and research needs of its customers. Its information resources are predominantly in English and Arabic, with a minor portion in Malay, Persian, Urdu, Chinese, and other languages. Arabic language materials comprise of 30% of the collection. To make the resources readily accessible “anytime” and “anywhere” the Library embarked in a digital library project in 2001 and its full implementation started in 2004. The need for Arabic language capabilities has always been one of the Library’s major requirements. The system fully supports Arabic, able to publish Arabic information online, and provides full-text access. The whole process of making the resources accessible online involves various activities such as digitizing, indexing, digital object management and web publishing. The current system has many strengths, however it also has areas for improvement. This paper shares the Library’s experience in implementing a digital library system, focusing on the challenges in digitizing Arabic language information resources 2006 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/1/1/digitization_of_arabic_materials-final.doc Abdullah, Sarifah and Marsidi, Suhaila (2006) Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems. In: World Congress of Muslim Librarians and Information Scientists, 27 - 30 November, 2008, Putra World Trade Centre. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	ZA Information resources ZA4050 Electronic information resources Abdullah, Sarifah Marsidi, Suhaila Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
description	The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Library’s mission is to be an excellent information centre providing information to meet the learning, teaching, and research needs of its customers. Its information resources are predominantly in English and Arabic, with a minor portion in Malay, Persian, Urdu, Chinese, and other languages. Arabic language materials comprise of 30% of the collection. To make the resources readily accessible “anytime” and “anywhere” the Library embarked in a digital library project in 2001 and its full implementation started in 2004. The need for Arabic language capabilities has always been one of the Library’s major requirements. The system fully supports Arabic, able to publish Arabic information online, and provides full-text access. The whole process of making the resources accessible online involves various activities such as digitizing, indexing, digital object management and web publishing. The current system has many strengths, however it also has areas for improvement. This paper shares the Library’s experience in implementing a digital library system, focusing on the challenges in digitizing Arabic language information resources
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Abdullah, Sarifah Marsidi, Suhaila
author_facet	Abdullah, Sarifah Marsidi, Suhaila
author_sort	Abdullah, Sarifah
title	Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
title_short	Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
title_full	Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
title_fullStr	Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
title_full_unstemmed	Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems
title_sort	digitization of arabic materials in iium library : challenges and problems
publishDate	2006
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Digitization of Arabic materials in IIUM Library : challenges and problems

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