Dear All,
The following newsclip from DNA India
dt. 20-May-07 may be of interest to you all -----------
Search engine Google to digitise
800,000 books at Mysore varsity
IANS
Sunday, May 20, 2007 15:16 IST
NEW DELHI: At least 800,000 books and
manuscripts, including India's first political treatise the 'Arthasastra'
written in the 4th century BC by Kautilya, that are lying in Mysore University
in Karnataka, will be digitised by Google, the world's leading Internet
search engine.
"Written in both papers and palm
leaves, there are around 100,000 manuscripts in our library, some dating
back to the eighth century. The effort is to restore and preserve this
cultural heritage for effective dissemination of knowledge," said
J. Shashidhara Prasad, vice chancellor of the university.
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