The concept of digital libraries has come and it will stay. There are many projects being undertaken in different parts of the world. Yet there are many intricacies in developing a digital library. Two ways of developing a digital library has been identified. They are converting traditional library into a digital library and direct development of digital library. But, there are no clear cut ways to plan for a digital library. Hence, in this paper an attempt has been made to provide guidelines for planning and development of a digital library. The other issues discussed in this paper are definition of digital library components of a digital library, ideal digital library, steps involved in planning a digital library and prototype for converting traditional library into a digital library.
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Lakshmi et al. (1998) studied this question.