Thailand to Strengthen Digital Development Policy – OpenGov Asia

The challenge for the librarians and libraries in the era of digitisation is how to make reliable and relevant resources that are available online more accessible to the researchers, and to make what’s available in prints that are not available online be digitised and transformed into formats that are more readily accessible to the users.

“There is no need to compete with an online search as libraries advance and fully digitise themselves, making institutional repositories accessible to target users whenever they want,” says Mary Grace P. Golfo-Barcelona, Dean, School of Library and Information Studies, the University of the Philippines Diliman during the Nutrition Research Information Network’s (NUTRINET) 35^th anniversary hosted by the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI).

Knowing that other networks of libraries would…