Google to Digitize 8,00,000 Books at Mysore University in India

Around 8,00,000 books as well as manuscripts from the Mysore University in Karnataka, India will soon be digitized by Google.

The Mysore University library has around 100,000 manuscripts that are written both on paper as well as palm leaves. These would include India’s first political treatise, the ‘Arthashastra’ written in the 4th century BC by Kautilya. Continue reading

[PS. Above info courtesy: David P. Dillard & Soundara Rajan]

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"Publishing industry via a battle between technology that is predisposed to liberate information and business models that seek to lock information down. For better or worse, the future of innovation and ideas is being defined by the entertainment/publishing industry via a battle between technology that is predisposed to liberate information and business models that seek to lock information down." James L. Hilton, in Copyright Myths and Realities [see the first link below for full details]

When Worlds Collide: Copyright and Scholarship in the Digital Age James L. Hilton;

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, Nicholson Baker

Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science), by Richard J. Cox

Are Poor Countries Losing the Information Revolution, Francisco Rodríguez. Ernest J. Wilson,

It's a steal: who owns what in the digital age

Google Books: Whats Not to Like?

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Prof. Shalini R Urs's Contributions to Digital Librariansip

Dr. N B Pangannaya: Life and times

Mysore Univesity Library School Alumni