(28 December 2015) India’s Ministry of Culture has approved Rs. 400 crore [US$60 million] for the scheme “National Mission on Libraries – Upgradation of Libraries – Providing Services to the Public” for the 12th Plan period [2012-2017]. The components of the National Mission on Libraries (NML) are : (i) Creation of National Virtual Library of India…
(18 December 2015, Kolkata) Scholars have discovered a 6th-century manuscript of the Hindu epic Ramayana by chance. The manuscript was found tucked inside a Purana at Kolkata-based Sanskrit library, Samskrita Sahitya Parishad, reported The Times of India on Friday. This version of Ramayana shows both Ram and Sita more as humans and largely deals with…
(17 December 2015) Under the Internship Programme six interns will be selected for a period of one year and trained in the tools and techniques of information handling used in the Central Library, IIT Bombay. A monthly stipend of Rs. 12,000/- and Rs. 14,000/- will be paid to candidates having B.Lib.Science and M.Lib.Science qualifications respectively.…
(12 December 2015) This UGC funded website in Andhra Pradesh, India has been developed to provide one stop access for the teaching and learning community to free resources such as e-journals, e-books, directories/gateways, thesis and other open access resources in pure sciences, social sciences and management. The project entitled Design and Development of Open Educational Resources…
(8 December 2015) The Scheme “National Mission on Libraries – Upgradation of Libraries – providing services to the public” has been approved with a total outlay of Rs. 400 Crores [US$74 milion] for the 12th Plan period [2012 to 2017]. Under the Scheme, the Mission will upgrade infrastructure of selected libraries and upgrade technology in 35…
(3 December 2015, London) The Nature Index analytics report Indian Science Ascending is the first of a new style of reports that further probe data from the Nature Index http://www.natureindex.com/) to answer questions about India’s place in global science, especially when compared with countries that have similar volumes of index output in 2014 and with…
(28 November 2015, Kolkata, IANS) Heritage enthusiasts and tourists can now travel back in time to experience the grandeur of 19th century Kolkata through a unique mobile app that offers a glimpse of the city during the British Raj by a mere pointing of a smartphone at a monument. Christened ‘Timescape: Kolkata’, the app is…
(12 November 2015) An international team is to digitise and give free online access to one of the world’s most important collections of South-Asian language printed books. A pilot project for a major digitisation initiative – Two Centuries of Indian Print – was announced today by the British Library, with the support of funding from…
(8 November 2015) The changing educational, social and recreational role of the library is a hotly debated subject among planners and readers alike. On a visit to Delhi, Bruno Racine, director of Bibliotheque Nationale de France (National Library of France), explains to The Hindu how public libraries need to become more interactive spaces. France and…
(29 October 2015) India and France signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to conserve, develop and publicize written heritage, at the National Library in Kolkata on the 28th of October. Smt Sreya Guha, Joint Secretary (Library) in the Ministry of Culture and Mr. Bruno Racine, President of the National Library of France signed the MoU…
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