What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Digital Information?

The procedures that need to be followed when retrieving information for paper based information consist of finding out whether you are allowed access to the information, finding out where the information is stored if you are allowed access to it, looking for the information, taking it from its storage place remembering how it was stored for when the information is to be put back. The procedures that need to be followed when deleting information for paper based information consist of finding out if the information is confidential or not normally something that is confidential has address or names on it, if the information is confidential then it needs to be cross-cut shredded if the information is not confidential then it can be shredded normally. The procedures that need to be followed when archiving information for electronic based information consist of checking to see if the information contains legal information or long-term business obligations, checking to see if there is more than one copy of the information, if there is more than one copy of the information check to see if the extra copies can be deleted, if the

The development of information and communication technologies paved the way for evolution of electronic media. Print media has changed into electronic media with many more added features and is also the present need of the society. Storage, fiscal, information explosion problems are sorted out due to electronic resources. It provides libraries to get a new identity and also to survive in day to day changing environment. An attempt has been made by the authors to clearly understand the concept, need, types, advantages and disadvantages of electronic resources.

Students aren’t limited to a local physical library. With technology, students have several sources of information in various formats such as books, articles, newspapers, videos, and much more.

In chapter 11 Alexander Stille, explains about how past technology can retrieve the images and data more than the ones you can retrieve from modern technology. All this great information from the old technology is being refurbished to the newer technology where it can lead to an obstacle because if the data are not transferred correctly the information from the past can deteriorate. In the past, paintings that are hundreds of years old still look as new today as if they were painted yesterday but, in modern times we will save it in a smaller space that deteriorates very quickly. Our government and military in the past have tried to make the records digital but, the major problem is to restore records and emails. Military records were stored

Preservation: Before performing a computer forensics analysis, we must ensure to do everything possible to preserve the original data and media. It involves making a forensic image of the media and conducting our analysis on the copy versus the original.

Digital evidence is defined as being evidence that takes form as electronic data, or information stored in bits and bytes on magnetic media. Digital evidence cane range from photos, videos, text documents, internet activity logs, phone numbers, or any other data that is stored electronically that has involvement with a criminal case. Devices that can hold digital evidence are personal computers, computer media, disks, CDs, DVDs, etc. and cellular phones or similar all into one devices and many other types of devices as well. When preserving digital evidence extreme care must be taken. Investigators are sworn in to never change or altar evidence digital or not. Digital data however is very fragile and extra care is imperative. So the first and foremost concern when dealing with digital data is to preserve all data on the hard disk drive or other computer media in a pristine, unaltered, unharmed and unchanged manner.

Recent studies have highlighted a number of difficulties, that some have mentioned on above. Only half the print books acquired by academic libraries are available as e-books, that mean is not so important. When acquired individually, academic e-books cost substantially more than print editions. The preservation of e-books is especially difficult because it requires the long-term maintenance of several distinct elements: texts, file formats, software, operating systems, and hardware. Sustainable access to e-books is hindered by impermanent physical media, proprietary file formats and software, and restrictive license

And unfortunately papers are entirely made from trees. Consequently, trees are cut for the purpose of making papers. It is fact that trees are important to keep our ecology, and also, life is entirely depending on the oxygen released from trees. Thus, we have the obligation to prevent the cut down of trees, in order to sustain life in our planet, for the purpose of making papers. Environmental change, global warming and decrease soil fertility are as the result of decrease in the population of trees in our planet. By minimizing our usage of papers and recycling, we can minimize the impact of environmental disaster. Using electronic books is one method to minimize usage of paper. Using electronic books instead of hard copy books, the environment can be protected from

Library users today are able to meet most their information needs through the sources outside the library. The ubiquitous access to internet today and the rise of the companies like Google, Amazon and Wikipedia have provided viable alternatives to users for their information needs. So libraries are experiencing an evolutionary change in their traditional services. And the rapid evolving digital technologies can be seen as an opportunity for libraries as their need to evolve in the face of these new challenges.

Hard Copies – hard copies are paper copies of documents. These can be stored in filing cabinets or for larger companies, in their storage facilities. Paper copies may be archived in folders and sorted into an order using dividers. This may be simple when storing a small amount of information or when keeping important documents (e.g. with a wet signature), however this may be impractical if you have a vast amount of documents as a lot of storage space would be needed. It may also be difficult to locate certain documents if you have most of your files stored as hard copies as you will have to spend time going through folders to find the correct file. This is a common way of storing some company data, however

Converting books to a digital format allows the libraries to circulate digital copies without compensating the owner of the copyright. Consequently,

The purpose of the research is to discuss and analyze to prove vulnerabilities of the internet being a disadvantage to society as compared to physical libraries. The report would discuss the characteristics of physical libraries, and provide factors which support the necessity of physical

Academic institutions such as the University and College tend to produce academic journal articles and other scholarly works which in the early days published and kept in the library or disseminate to other organization. As the production of this material keeps increasing the needs to have a large storage to keep all the materials became a problem for the institution. This is because some of the institution did not have a very large storage to cater the needs to keep the materials as the institution not only keep materials publish from the institution only but also from another institution. As the technologies revolve, more initiative has been taken to ensure that the scholarly works of an institution can be disseminated to various part of the world in order to share the knowledge. During the early days the information is published using printed method and the time taken to disseminate it is far too long and the cost is also very high. Other than that, it is very hard to preserve printed materials in a big number. As the institution is now using digital format in publishing their scholarly works, the process of disseminating the knowledge become easier and faster. Now days the digitization activity for materials seems to be increasing as people are now more concern about the preservation of printed materials which lead to the needs of a repository to keep and manage those materials.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of electronic Information resources on user of NIPER (National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research) mohali. A questionnaire was used to find the answer of questions about the awareness and usage of e resources among user, to identify the level of satisfaction, to measure the impact of electronic resources and to find out the problems which are faced by the user. The study found that use of e resources was not only affected by low seep of network and reading direct from computer but also lack of enough computers in library and paid access of information. The finding of the study indicated that a lot need to be done to increase the use of e-resource and librarians should reorient themselves, think creatively and adopt the new technology to generate services and resources to increase the use of

Library is an important part of the academic sector as well as some professional sectors too like, Advocacy etc. The efficiency of a library lies in the fact how it is arranged and how easily one can get the books of their choice. Generally, what we see nowadays is the manual library management system whose process of operation is