For thousands of years human beings have come together to learn and share knowledge, but Information technology is reshaping the landscape of learning and knowledge as it can deliver learning materials in the most effective format at any time. Digital libraries support the transition of academic institutions towards digital universities, it is believed that introducing ETD digital repositories is a step in this process. This paper describes an ETD Digital Library project at the Libyan Academy of Graduate Studies. The project aims to build digital library for theses and dissertations (ETD). This work is a project for the first institutional ETD digital library in Libya. The researchers developed a system based on Greenstone open source system for building ETD digital library. A metadata for theses and dissertations was developed in this research. The paper addresses issues related to project design, and development. Conclusions highlighted some important lessons learned to date.
محمد الرتيمي | Mohamed Arteimi | 931