Global Presentations

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Global Presentations- India
Prof. N. Balakrishnan Associate Director Indian
Institute of Science Bangalore
Fifth Annual Workshop on the Million Book
Project Bibliothca Alexandrina, Alexandrina,
Egypt November 19th, 2006
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Disclaimer and Acknowledgement

• This presentation is being made on behalf of the
  Ministry of Communications and Information
  Technology, India, ERNET, Office of the PSA,
  Coordinators and contributors from 21 Centres for
  Content Creation.
• The role played by Prof Raj Reddy and his ever
  generous and ever pardoning approach are great
  lessons for every one on how to manage this
  Humongous , India, Great Wall of China and
  Egypt
• The International Coordinators from Australia,
  China, Egypt and the US.

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Participating centers of DLI
PTU-1 PTU-2 PTU-3
Rashtrapathi Bhavan
CDAC Noida
ERNET
IIIT-Allahabad
CDAC Kolkata
Pune University
MIDC
IIIT-H State City Central Library University
of Hyderabad
Goa University
IISc
TTD Tirupati
Sringeri Mutt
Mega Scanning Centres at IIITH, IIITA CDAC- Noida
and Kolkatta
Anna University
IISc, IIAP, PoornaPragya
Kanchi Mutt
ASR Melkote
SASTRA
AKCE
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Participating Centres of DL Activities in India
Coordination and Research Centre in India
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

• Centres
• International Institute of Information
  Technology, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh ?
• City and State Central Library, Hyderabad, Andhra
  Pradesh
• Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, Tirupati, Andhra
  Pradesh
• Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation
  (MIDC), Mumbai, Maharashtra
• University of Pune, Pune, Maharashtra
• CDAC-Kolkatta ?
• Goa University, Goa
• CDAC- Noida ?
• Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi
• Indian Institute of Information Technology,
  Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh ?
• Punjab Technical University, Punjab
• Arulmigu Kalasligam College of Engineering
  (AKCE), Srivilliputur, Madurai, Tamil Nadu
• Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
• Osmania University
• Salarjung Muesuem
• Shanmugha Art, Science, Technology Research
  Academy, Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu
• Kanchi University, Kanchi, Tamil Nadu
• Indian Institute of Astrophysics,
  Bangalore,Karnataka

Many more new centres in the anvil
? Mega Content Creation Centres region wise
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200 Scanner Locations
No. of Scanners
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Books
Scanned in the Respective Coordinating Centers
(As on 31-Oct-06) IISc, IIIT-H, IIIT-A,
CDAC-N, CDAC-K
Total Number of Books 340,517
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Pages
Scanned in the Respective Coordinating Centers
(As on 31-Oct-06) IISc, IIIT-H, IIIT-A,
CDAC-N, CDAC-K
Total Number of Pages 109,839,862
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Books
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Indian
Languages
Total Number of Books
340,517
Total Number Books in Indian Languages 124,681
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Pages
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Indian
Languages
Total Number of Pages 109,839,862
Total Number of Pages in Indian Languages
26,267,822
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Books
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) English And
Foreign Languages
Total Number of Books 340,517
Total Number of English and Foreign
Language Books 193,453
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Pages
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) English And
Foreign Languages
Total Number of Pages 109,839,862
Number of Pages in English and Foreign Languages
60,318,271
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Books
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Miscellaneous
Total Number of Books
340,517
Total Number of Miscellaneous Books 47,075
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Digital Library of India Total Number of Pages
(Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Miscellaneous
Total Number of Pages
109,839,862
Total Number of Miscellaneous Pages 23,119,450
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Digital Library of India Visitors Status -
August, 2006
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Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status
- August, 2006
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Digital Library of India Visitors Status -
September, 2006
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Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status
- September, 2006
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Current Status (All centers included)
Target for 2007 500,000 Books

• Total No. of Books Scanned
• 340,517 Books
• Total No. of Pages Scanned
• 109,839,862 Pages

340,517 books ( till 2006)
No. of Books
Target for 2007 165,000,000 Pages
109,839,862 pages ( till 2006)
No. of Pages
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Some notable serious users from across the world

• Minister for Education of Union of Myanmar
• Dr John King, Houston, Texas, US
• Dr Dominik Wujastyk, The Welcome Centre for the
  History of Medicine at UCL
• Mark Hollow, Information Services
  Librarian,Geoscience Australia Library
• Galina Rousseva-Sokolova, Sofia University
• Sunil Sangwal (Teacher in Mathematics),
  Hanumangarh, Rajasthan
• Smt. V.R. Deshpande, Sr Librarian, CPRI
• M. Paul Pandian, Librarian, Institute of
  Mathematical Sciences

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Special Request from a Minister

• Could u provide us a single user for the
  minister of Education, Union of Myanmar?

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A Few Samples of feedback from the users
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A Few Samples of feedback from the users
It is a very noble gesture on your part to host
useful and rare books free of cost on your site.
You are doing a great service to the academic and
the student community. My best wishes are with
you.
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More Samples of feedback from the users

• Please accept my thanks for making this digital
  library available to the world.
• I found that the digital library of INDIA has
  some very useful books and other material for me.
• Thank you very much for this Digital Library of
  India Project, for the work done so far and for
  all that is to come. An initiative like this is
  extremely important for people like myself and my
  colleagues from the Indology department of Sofia
  University in Bulgaria, working far away from any
  major indological library.
• I really felt very happy to see many of the books
  I never heard, in your site. This is really a
  very useful site for all. I even forwarded about
  this site to many of my friends who in turn
  forward to their friends.
• Thank you so much for attending to my needs so
  promptly. I express my deepest gratitude.

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More Samples of feedback from the users

• Great effort. Can you keep a web page that
  contains the list of new additions.
• Thank you so much for attending to my needs so
  promptly. I express my deepest gratitude.
• First of all, I'd like to thank everybody behind
  DLI for making such an amazing work, making the
  valuable content available to general public.
  I'll also be happy if i can contribute to the
  project anyway
• Congratulations for the wonderful efforts on your
  part. This is the way to go.
• I am very much delighted to see the dli website
  in which many ancient books are available.
• Very good initiative. Take care about the
  performance of the link.

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Thank You