Digitisation of Special Collections: National and Academic Libraries’ Examples

The paper describes a few major national and academic libraries of the world that have undertaken projects to exploit the potential of digital technology for displaying unique and fragile materials. It also highlights major goals of these digital projects. Selection criteria of special collections for digitisation, by these libraries, have also been discussed in the paper. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dbit.24.5.3634