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 19 th, 2006

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.

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

Participating Centres of DL Activities in India 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 Coordination and Research Centre in India Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Many more new centres in the anvil …  Mega Content Creation Centres region wise

No. of Scanners ~ 200 Scanner Locations

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

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

Digital Library of India Total Number of Books (Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Indian Languages Total Number Books in Indian Languages = 124,681 Total Number of Books = 340,517

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

Total Number of Books = 340,517 Digital Library of India Total Number of Books (Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) English And Foreign Languages Total Number of English and Foreign Language Books = 193,453

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

Total Number of Books = 340,517 Digital Library of India Total Number of Books (Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Miscellaneous Total Number of Miscellaneous Books = 47,075

Digital Library of India Total Number of Pages (Language wise - As on 31-Oct-06) Miscellaneous Total Number of Miscellaneous Pages = 23,119,450 Total Number of Pages = 109,839,862

Digital Library of India Visitors Status - August, 2006

Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status - August, 2006

Digital Library of India Visitors Status - September, 2006

Digital Library of India Page Downloaded Status - September, 2006

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

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

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

A Few Samples of feedback from the users 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.

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. Wonderful job done! I love it I am very much delighted to see the dli website in which many ancient books are available I have visit this web site it is great internet site for rural students concerning with technical sciences 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

 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. 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.