Digital Repository: A Study of Revolutionary Endowment of Engineering Institution Libraries of Odisha

This paper explores the current status of In-house digital repository initiated by the engineering college libraries of Odisha. Now the engineering college libraries have initiated a significant effort in the field of digitization that a digital repository helps to manage and capture their intellectual assets of the institutions. In this context, the study aimed to initiate innovation that has been made by engineering college libraries of Odisha. Libraries have been preserving the intellectual assets i.e. study material, question paper, NPTEL web/video courses, Back volume, thesis & dissertation, and books. For digitization, the libraries are using some open source software and commercial software. This helps the libraries disseminate the information on a finger tip. In addition to this, this study gives its best efforts to explore the area of the in-house digital repository initiation, the types and contents of the archive for in-house digital repository, recognition of the source of preservation and finally finding out the skills of the manpower engaged in the digital repository activity.