Challenges in the preservation of electronic informationin digital era

Digital library is an increasingly wide range of digital resources from formally published e-journals, e-books through databases and datasets in many formats. The development of networked environment explores the challenges before the working library professional, archivist and information scientist to preserve the electronic information in the Digital era. Selected four major key areas ie. Internet, IPR, Security and Data format and discussed its present situation and barriers to preserve the electronic collection . Highlighted some important solutions pointed out by the Joint Information System Committee, UK . and National Digital Library Federation and Research Library Groups, Australia.