Building digital libraries in Bangladesh: A developing country perspective

This paper describes the ways used to build digital libraries in Bangladesh as well as the problems that might be encountered during digital library system development. It shows the existing status of digital library development, particularly the status of digitization in Bangladesh as well as government initiatives to build digital library system. Finally, several steps are proposed by the author for one possible approach to build an effective digital library system.

► Status of digitization and digital library initiatives in Bangladesh are explored.
► Large numbers of universities have no access to subscription-based e-resources.
► National Task Force on DL System Development is proposed to build DL nationwide.
► Barriers to digital library development/digitization projects have been explored.
► Digital libraries inevitable for building ‘Digital Bangladesh’ by 2021.