Dear Friends After I sent in the request for information on where to donate rare Tamil books & manuscripts I received a large number of messages (as many as thirty) (mostly to my mail Id) and many are still coming. I think I have got enough responses. Institutions recommended include: Sarasvati Mahal Library Tanjore Tamilnadu National Library Kolkatta Indira Gandhi National center for arts, delhi National Mission for Manuscripts, Delhi Tamil University, Tanjore, Tamilnadu Center Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai and a few others I could also get in touch with Sri Ramachandra Budhial of WIPRO who has managed massive digitization projects for govt of Tamilnadu and elsewhere. He has won a citation from Sri Abdul Kalam for his contribution using a mobile digitisation van equipped with complete set of ultra modern equipments specially for manuscripts / palm leaves digitization. In some cases I have individually acknowledged. To others I am doing through this mail. I would prepare a summary of responses for the benefit of all a little later. Lis-forum is a great place to look for help. Vyasamoorthy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Padmanabha Vyasamoorthy <vyasamoorthy@gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:59 PM Subject: Where to donate? To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Dear Friends A friend of mine in Delhi has a collection of about 100 rare books manuscripts & palm leaves, mostly in Tamil left by his father. He wants to donate them to some institution that may preserve it for future use. Digitisation is one of the options also. Do you know of libraries where he can try? Any leads will be appreciated. My own efforts have not yielded any results. Regards -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- Dr P Vyasamoorthy, Society for Serving Seniors 30, Gruhalakshmi Colony, Secunderabad 500015 Phone 27846631 / 94908 04278 http://societyforservingseniors.satyamcsr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.