Workshop on Digital Libraries, 14 –18 December 2002, Khartoum, Sudan, by Sudan British Council with collaboration with Documentation and Information Centre of National Centre for Research and Sudatel Training Centre: THE IMPACT OF NCR-DIC READINESS IN REALIZING SUDAN DIGITAL LIBRARY / By Rafaa Ashmallah Ghobrial: 7. NCR-DIC and TECHNOLOGY:: 7.1 MIROFICHE:

Workshop on Digital Libraries, 14 –18 December 2002, Khartoum, Sudan, by Sudan British Council with collaboration with Documentation and Information Centre of National Centre for Research and Sudatel Training Centre: THE IMPACT OF NCR-DIC READINESS IN REALIZING SUDAN DIGITAL LIBRARY / By Rafaa Ashmallah Ghobrial

Workshop on Digital Libraries, 14 –18 December 2002, Khartoum, Sudan, by Sudan British Council with collaboration with Documentation and Information Centre of National Centre for Research and Sudatel Training Centre: THE IMPACT OF NCR-DIC READINESS IN REALIZING SUDAN DIGITAL LIBRARY / By Rafaa Ashmallah Ghobrial

1. BACKGROUND:

2. NCR-DIC OBJECTIVES:

3.NCR-DIC RESOURCES:

3.1 HUMAN RESOURCES:

3.2 PHYSCIAL RESOURCES:

3.3 FINANIAL RESOURCES:

4.NCR-DIC SECTIONS:

5. NCR –DIC CLIENTS:

6. NCR-DIC SYSTEMS:

7. NCR-DIC and TECHNOLOGY:

7.1 MIROFICHE:

7.2 MICROCOMPUTERS:

7.2.a CDS/ISIS-BASED LIBRARY SYSTEM

7.2. b. CONVERSION UTILITY:

7.2.c The Windows Version:

7.2.d Compatibility between the DOS and Windows versions:

7.2.e CDS/ISIS Application Development Tools:

7.2.f.Internet tools:

8. NCR-DIC ELECTRONIC NETWORKING:

9. NCR-DIC READINESS:

10. CURRENT BARRIERS TO BUILD DIGITAL LIBRARIES:

11. CONCLUSION:

12. REFERENCES:

7.1 MIROFICHE:

7.1 MIROFICHE:

NCR-DIC set up Microfiche in 1990 with funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. The aim was to facilitate the acquisition of documents related to Sudan, which cannot be easily obtained in hard copy. These include government document, theses, existing special library Collections of older documents now out of print, and the documents from Libraries outside Khartoum such as Gezira. Its system fits into the computerized cataloguing system very easily through the microfiche accessioning system. Each document on the fiche is given an accession number and this is added to the Catalogue record on the computer when the document is catalogued. If an online search identifies references on the fiche can be retrieved from the Storage cabinet by using the accession number, as the fiches are stored in accession number sequence