*Indian Statistical Institute, 8th Mile Mysore Road, R.V. College post, Bangalore, 560059, INDIA. Email: krish@isibang.ac.in
The paper discusses the implementation of Dspace at the Indian Statistical Institute and challenges facing implementing digital library. This paper outlines the practical issues and key stages involved in digitizing, based on work undertaken as part of the developing digital library with a teaching and research context. In this paper an attempt has been made to explain the importance of open source software, developing a digital library at the Indian Statistical Institute, and its features are discussed.
Dspace, Open source, Practical digital library