Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Marathwada University, Aurangabad (Maharashtra).
This paper attempts to highlight the various facets relating to preservation of library resources in the digital era such as digital collection and digital preservation, approaches and techniques of preservation and their requirements, process of preservation, key measures towards digital preservation in India and those prominent Indian institutes and libraries which are supports for implementation of the policy and digitization and preservation programmes. The paper also focuses on the challenges of digital preservation.