What does NDL stand for?

Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST) "The availability of IT-based electronic information products are [sic] exerting ever-increasing pressures on libraries, which, in turn, are committing larger portions of their budgetary allocation for either procuring or accessing web-based online full-text search services, CD ROM products and online databases" (Arora and Agarwal, 2004, p.

A sampling of topics includes the development of Indonesia's National Digital Library Network; the challenges of cross-lingual information retrieval; and the use of digital libraries for disseminating humanitarian information in developing countries.

The goal of the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program is to digitize and deliver electronically the most distinctive and historic American documents at the library.

The British Library is now setting up a National Digital Library as an integral part of its more traditional services, with a programme of work to build the technical infrastructure for the Library's digital collections.

Both divisions work closely with the National Digital Library Program to make their incomparable resources accessible over the Internet to the general public through the American Memory Web site (http:// memory.

html This site was created as part of the Library of Congress' efforts "to add rare and unique items from the library's vast African-American collections to the National Digital Library.

Through its National Digital Library (NDL) Program, it is also one of the leading providers of noncommercial intellectual content on the Internet (www.

One outstanding example ,of such a model is embodied in the work undertaken by a research team :from the University of Maryland, working with the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program (Marchionini et al.