Challenges of transformation to digital environment in libraries of catholic monasteries : a field study | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2019, Page 151-180 PDF (536.75 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2019.64134 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Mervat Fouad Gerges* | ||||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة طنطا | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The study aims to identify the various requirements that must be met in order to carry out the digitalization process within the libraries and to identify the most important organizational, legal, financial, technical and human obstacles that prevent the transformation to the digital environment in the libraries of the Catholic monasteries in Egypt. And then to make recommendations that will overcome the obstacles of digitization in the libraries of the Catholic monasteries in Egypt, and establish the initial rules for the establishment of digitization projects . The researcher used the applied field research method. The study tools were in a questionnaire that was designed according to the objectives and questions of the study. The sample was limited to six monasteries libraries representing the most important libraries of Catholic monasteries in Egypt . One of the most important results of the study is that two thirds of the libraries have a specific plan for transition to the digital environment. None of the study libraries have intellectual property rights protection software. The study also found the lack of financial allocations necessary to train employees on digitization techniques and to renovate the infrastructure and regular maintenance, in half of the study libraries , And the weakness of these allocations in the other half of the study libraries As well as the existence of technical obstacles to the implementation of digitization projects in the libraries under study, the most important is weakness of the necessary infrastructure, And the lack of adequate basic equipment and equipment necessary for the digitization process in the study libraries. The most important human obstacles are the severe lack of digitization skills and the electronic archiving of the staff of the study libraries | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| digital environment; catholic monasteries libraries | ||||
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