[LIS-Forum] Reply to Puna Das from the Milion Books project

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

Prof. N Balakrishnan has provided a clarification to
Mr Anup Kumar Das, who had posted a message to this
list on 6 November (from Puna Das). 

Subbiah Arunachalam

=====

Dear Arun:
The guy is again wrong regarding the CDAC Kolkatta
books and has not
 spent
even a minute looking at the web site-
Please go to www.new.dli.ernet.in and just click on
the left hand side on the
search button leaving all fields default- you will get
the total number
 of
books as on that date-
Next if you choose scanning centre as cdac Kolkatta
then you will find
3565 books totaling more than 1.6 million pages- all
these are common
sense and you must make sure th guys without exploring
do not make
 unsavy
comments- we are professional and have done what no
one has done so
 far-
Put one million books on the web-

Balki

Regards
Balki

> Dear Balki:
>
> There is some concern expressed about the Million
> Books project. I am forwarding a mail I received
> today. Best wishes.
>
> Arun
>
>
> --- Puna Das <puna_05 at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:49:01 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: Puna Das <puna_05 at yahoo.co.in>
>> To: lis-forum at ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
>> CC: digilib_india at yahoogroups.com,
>> atanu.garai at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] CMU Million Book Project
>>
>> Dear Colleagues
>>
>>   Atanu wanted to point out so called ‘current
>> status’ of Digital Library of India project. This
is
>> very unfortunate that the tech-savvy DLI team could
>> not provide us latest statistics on its site. The
>> statistics available here is more than a year old.
>> Another point I would like to raise, DLI’s Kolkata
>> Mega Scanning Centre could not provide us access to
>> a single book they have scanned using tax-payers
>> money. To my estimate, less than 25% scanned
>> documents are available through DLI websites. How
>> can we please help out this overburdened project
>> team having a blurred vision?
>>
>>   Thanking you
>>
>>   Anup Kumar Das
>>   CSSP, JNU
>>   New Delhi-110067
>>   Email: puna_05 at yahoo.co.in
>>   Ph. 011-26704400
>>
>>



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