(1 July 2015) As part of the ‘Digital India’ initiative, the Government recently unveiled the e-Basta platform which will provide digital and eBook versions of school books and other study material to school students through-out India. The platform, eBasta, is merely not a library of books, but a collaborative platform where school book publishers, school…
(26 June 2015) In this article about saving India’s recorded past, Brig (Retd) VAM Hussain considers the sound archives of All India Radio (AIR). From 1954 it has become the home of 53,000 tapes of music and spoken words. Among the latter are speeches by Mahatma Gandhi from the 1940s, and broadcasts by successive Indian…
(13 May 2015) Brill, the international scholarly publisher, donated over 500 books to Loyola College in Chennai, India as part of its Adopt a Library Program. The donation of scholarly books covers subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Biology and is part of Brill’s Adopt a Library Program. Each year the company donates…
(13 May 2015) Representatives from AAAS/Science were recently in India with the aim of promoting Science and research in India. Mr. Tom Ryan (Director), Ms. Eileen Bernadette Moran (Director, Corporate Relations) and Ms. Kiki Forsythe (Senior Publisher Relations Specialists) first attended the 11th Annual Meet & Workshop of INDEST-AICTE Consortium held at IISER Mohali from April 29th…
(7 May 2015) The growth rate in the number of students from India heading to universities abroad has outpaced China for the first time, according to a new report on Indian student mobility trends to the main English-speaking countries – the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. These five destination countries account for nearly…
(9 May 2015) The Endangered Archives Programme offers a number of grants every year to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver digital copies into the international research domain via the British Library. The specific focus of this Programme…
(27 March 2015) Reliance Life Insurance Company (RLIC) inaugurated its first library in India’s Telangana State in partnership with Room to Read, an NGO committed to promoting literacy and gender equality in education across Asia and Africa by providing libraries in schools. The library was inaugurated at Government Primary School in Akaram village in Nalgonda…
(22 March 2015) The Amazon Kindle Voyage e-reader will be launching in India in the next few weeks. Customers will get a chance to purchase either the WIFI only model for INR 16,499 or the 3G variant for INR 20,499. Good e-Reader has the story.
(4 March 2015, Pretoria) An MoU has been signed here between India and South Africa for digital images of the copies of ‘Indian Opinion’, a newspaper established by Mahatma Gandhi, to provide an authentic open source archive on the iconic leader’s life and times. Indian High Commissioner Ruchi Ghanashyam and Chief Executive of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA), Rocky…
(8 February 2015, New Delhi) With its presence in India spanning more than 100 years, the Oxford University Press (OUP) has embarked on a slew of new initiatives for the Indian audience like print on demand, a digital platform for writers and local publishing and adaptations of its global medicine programme. The Deccan Herald has…
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