Creation of Digital Document Archives with Winisis

Abstract

The article begins with the need for librarians to familiarize, learn and utilize new information technologies in handling abundantly available digital documents. It describes briefly about Winisis software and its components. The steps needed to install the software and to create the modifications to be made in the print format are shown, with screenshots as well as description about it, in an easily understandable manner. It concludes that the archive can be converted into a web-application with GenisisWeb software. The archive thus created can be treated as a stable prototype digital library, the creation of which can be learnt so easily. The use of Winisis for digital archiving in our libraries can help in transforming our libraries into knowledge dissemination centres and libraries into knowledge managers.