Thursday 27 March 2014

TNAU digitises 7.80 lakh pages of rare documents

The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University had digitised 7.80 lakh pages of rare documents, Vice Chancellor K. Ramasamy has said.
Speaking at the inauguration of a national workshop on ‘Bringing Library Resources to Users’ Desk’, he said that the University staff engaged in the digitisation project digitally captured the pages for preserving and providing easy access to help agriculture-related work in India. Mr. Ramasamy said that the digitisation of records was possible because of the University benefitting from the NAIP – ICAR e-granth project, the objective of which was to strengthen digital library and information management.
Urging all faculty to make best use of the TNAU’s e-books, he suggested that they download at least two e-books for each course to use them for teaching. He also wanted faculty and research scholars to write review articles to gain a standing in the profession.
R. Vijayaraghavan, Special Officer, Publications and Public Relations, said that times have changed so much that people no longer went to the libraries.

Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/tnau-digitises-780-lakh-pages-of-rare-documents/article5842280.ece

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