(25 Oct 2023) On a bright sunny day in August, in a second-floor room at the Gandhi Bhavan Museum in Bengaluru, workers sit in front of five giant tabletop scanners, lining up books and flipping pages with foot pedals. The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka,…
(21 Jun 2023) India has cemented its position as the world’s third-largest producer of research output, surpassing the United Kingdom, according to data presented at a joint seminar organized by the Ministry of Education and Elsevier. The seminar, held in preparation for the 4th G20 Education Working Group meeting, emphasized the critical role of accessible science…
(10 May 2023) Jain (Deemed-to-be University)’s leading School of Humanities and Social Sciences is now offering yet another fresh course: Master of Library and Information Science. For more information: https://www.jainuniversity.ac.in/program/humanities-and-social-sciences/library-and-information-science The news in full is here.
(3 Jan 2023) The three-day Indian Library Congress (ILC), which concluded in Kannur on Tuesday, decided to work towards establishing libraries across the country. Organising committee chairman V. Sivadasan, MP, presented the resolution that said that free access to a deliberative public space was a fundamental human right. He urged the authorities to increase public…
(26 Oct 2022) The Rajasthan government sanctioned Rs 36.56 crore to set up digital libraries in 344 residential schools across the state, an official statement said. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot approved the amount in compliance with the announcement made during the discussion of the Finance and Appropriation Bill 2022-23. Gehlot had announced the…
(20 Aug 2022) The Parliament Library [of India] which until recently was accessible only to lawmakers, government functionaries, accredited media persons and research scholars, has opened its collection of 1.7 million publications to the common people. As the library — which is the largest in Delhi and second largest in the country behind the National…
(17 Aug 2022) The Cabinet [of India] chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the “Widening access of the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) database to users, besides patent offices”. The opening up of the TKDL database to users is an ambitious and forward-looking action by the Government of India. This will…
(13 Aug 2022) While American publishers like Wiley and Elsevier have been pursuing a case in the Delhi High Court against two similar platforms – Library Genesis and Sci-Hub – it is unclear which court ordered the block on these sites. Z-Library is said to be a ‘mirror’ of Library Genesis, but appears to have a larger…
(19 Jun 2022) A stone plaquette detailing the establishment of what could have been the first public library and museum in Madurai in the year 1942, has been rediscovered in Pudhumandapam near Meenakshi temple in Madurai. The plaquette went missing for more than two decades and was found recently when the shops were cleared and…
(7 Jun 2022) Ajay Pratap Singh, the new director-general of the National Library, plans to restore and rejuvenate the National Library’s historic city hub at Esplanade which used to house newspapers and periodicals with IT support; develop repositories of all 22 scheduled languages, and focus on developing virtual environment to provide support to information seekers…