This announces the beginning of the project ‘Archive and Access’ aimed at running training workshops towards the digitization and sharing of online catalogues for archives and libraries in Goa, Tamil Nadu and areas in the North East of India.
The project team members are Rochelle Pinto and Aparna Balachandran (CSCS, Bangalore) and Abhijit Bhattacharya (CSSS, Kolkata). The project is directed mainly at non-state institutions that do not ordinarily attract funding. The object is to generate a culture of online sharing of resources that will benefit both libraries and users. It will publicize the significant holdings of libraries, and enable users at a glance, to view the availability of resources. Once the project generates a number of trained librarians and archivists, it can extend help towards fund-raising and maintain contact with libraries to oversee the maintenance of archives. * This is a call to readers, researchers and library users for information about private collections of texts, or small libraries that may be interested in availing of this programme. In addition to holding workshops, * The project will generate a descriptive database of archival and library collections in each of the focus areas and in other area within the country. * The project offers a service to historians who may have photocopied or microfilmed full texts in various archives over the years and are willing to make these publicly available. These and other reproductions will be scanned and uploaded with credits. They will then be made available online, and the data returned. Those interested please contact us at publicarchivesin...@gmail.com or rochellepi...@yahoo.com (Rochelle Pinto) or 09830986757 (Abhijit Bhattcharya). This project is housed at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and supported by the Jamsetji Tata Trust. -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://fredericknoronha.multiply.com/ http://goa1556.goa-india.org "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
