Challenges of transformation to digital environment in libraries of catholic monasteries : a field study

The study aims to identify the various requirements that must be met in
order to carry out the digitalization process within the libraries and to identify the
most important organizational, legal, financial, technical and human obstacles
that prevent the transformation to the digital environment in the libraries of the
Catholic monasteries in Egypt. And then to make recommendations that will
overcome the obstacles of digitization in the libraries of the Catholic monasteries
in Egypt, and establish the initial rules for the establishment of digitization
projects . The researcher used the applied field research method.
The study tools were in a questionnaire that was designed according to
the objectives and questions of the study. The sample was limited to six
monasteries libraries representing the most important libraries of Catholic
monasteries in Egypt .
One of the most important results of the study is that two thirds of the
libraries have a specific plan for transition to the digital environment. None of the
study libraries have intellectual property rights protection software. The study also
found the lack of financial allocations necessary to train employees on digitization
techniques and to renovate the infrastructure and regular maintenance, in half of
the study libraries , And the weakness of these allocations in the other half of the
study libraries As well as the existence of technical obstacles to the
implementation of digitization projects in the libraries under study, the most
important is weakness of the necessary infrastructure, And the lack of adequate
basic equipment and equipment necessary for the digitization process in the
study libraries. The most important human obstacles are the severe lack of
digitization skills and the electronic archiving of the staff of the study libraries