Global Presentations- India

1. 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

2. 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.

3. Digital Library of India Participating centers of DLI PTU-1 PTU-2 PTU-3 Rashtrapathi Bhavan ERNET CDAC Noida 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

4. 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 • Sringeri Mutt, Sringeri, Karnataka Many more new centres in the anvil …  Mega Content Creation Centres region wise

5. ~ 200 Scanner Locations No. of Scanners

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Digital Library of India Visitors Status - August, 2006

15. Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status - August, 2006

16. Digital Library of India Visitors Status - September, 2006

17. Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status - September, 2006

18. Current Status (All centers included) Target for 2007 500,000 Books • Total No. of Books Scanned 340,517Books • Total No. of Pages Scanned 109,839,862Pages 340,517 books ( till 2006) No. of Books Target for 2007 165,000,000 Pages 109,839,862 pages ( till 2006) No. of Pages

19. 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

20. Special Request from a Minister “Could u provide us a single user for the minister of Education, Union of Myanmar?”

21. I have been looking closely at the results of the DLI project, with great admiration. You have made available extraordinarily rich resources for study. I and all scholars will extend our gratitude to you for your vision, investment, and hard work. My own special field of interest is Sanskrit literature, and I am truly delighted by the wealth of important Sanskrit texts you have digitized. Firstly I would like to say thanks for such a wonderful project undertaken and preserving all old Indian knowledge in digital format. This enables to understand Indian culture and vast knowledge from it to the entire world especially to the western world. A Few Samples of feedback from the users

22. Wonderful job done! I love it I have visit this web site it is great internet site for rural students concerning with technical sciences I am very much delighted to see the dli website in which many ancient books are available I am pleased to learn that we also own a library on the Internet (DLI.ERNET.IN) 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.

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. Thank You