Tamil Digital Library (or) Tamil Electronic Library

TAMIL DIGITAL LIBRARY (OR) TAMILA ELECTRONIC LIBRARY

Tamil e-library is a collection of Tamil digital materials such as e-books, magazines, audio recordings, video recordings and other electronically accessible documents.

Many e-libraries have been established with lakhs of e-libraries. They are doing the work of bringing many good Tamil books to thousands of Tamils who live in places where print books cannot reach through the internet.

1. Five Concepts of Electronic Library System

1. Digital

An electronic library contains not only text data but also audio, graphics and motion videos in digital data forms. Since all data are digitalized, different types of data can be easily combined and high-level retrieval and other processing can be done.

2. Networking

When these types of electronic libraries appear in multiple locations and are inter-connected through a network, a large virtual library is constructed over the network. It is a 'World Library'. It crosses national boundaries regardless of the distance between actual electronic libraries.

3. Interactive

Electronic library system provides latest functions. It also allows books to be displayed on screen like printed books. Computer makes progress in retrieving books and papers. This system helps the user to display multiple books on the same screen, passing on from a link describing the same idea in another book. It enables the user to link unknown words, notes and tags at various levels in the book, translate the original text and output the text as voice data and refer to dictionaries and thesauruses at the same time.

4. Multimedia

A user of an electronic library system can use data in various formats such as text, sound, graphics and motion video. These multimedia data are much more comprehensible than conventional books containing only text, graphs and tables.

5. Measurable

In the electronic library system, the available hardware, software and data sources are used to create electronic libraries of varying sizes. An electronic library can be like a national library or as small as a personal library.

2. Advantages of Tamil e-Library

1. e-libraries are now a favourite sector of businesses and governments as they provide easy access to books, documents and various audio and visual information.

2. A limited amount of information can be stored in traditional libraries. As minimum space is enough to set up an e-library, it is possible to store much more information.

3. Texts, documents, sound and light notes can be easily accessed with simple inputs.

4. Even from wikipedia, blogs, etc., information can be obtained.

5. Digitalization enables multiple users to access the same information simultaneously.

6. An e-library user does not have to go there directly. Information can be accessed from any part of the world through internet connection.

7. It is great that users can use the digital library anytime, day or night.

8. The same information can be received simultaneously by different parties.

9. Users can get the information they need from all the content by entering any word, name, title.

10. Images, sound, light information can be enhanced. By refining and storing the available information, it is possible to protect it from destruction.

3. Problems of Tamil e-library (or) Disadvantages

1. Technology is changing from time to time. Accordingly, e-library should also improve its technology.

2. Migration from stateless data, storage to a more stable system, programming language (or) operating system.

3. While migrating the data to a new operating system (or) programming language, data loss also occurs.

4. Data migration is becoming increasingly expensive as technology evolves. Thus, its security becomes very complicated.

4. Sites where e-libraries are Available

e-Library Sites and Web Addresses

1. Tamil Nadu State School Textbooks and Secondary Teacher Training Text books for classes 1 to 10 : http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in

2. Tamil Nadu Internet University e-library (Formerly known as Tamil Nadu Internet University): http://www.tamilvu.org/library/libindex.htm

3. Connemara e-library: http://connemarapubliclibrarychennai. com /vettukku-oru-noolagam/ index.htm

4. Tamil Internet e-library: http://tamildigitallibrary.in

5. Chennai Library: http://www.chennailibrary.com

6. Thamizhagam: http://www.thamizhagam.net/parithi/parithi.htm

7. Madurai Tamil Literature e-synthesis Project: http://www.projectmadurai.org/ pmworld.htm

8. Ancient books and manuscripts: http://www.thamilheritage.org/oldtext ebook/ebook.htm

9. Library: http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php

10. Anna Centenary Library: http://www.annacentenarylibrary.org