On 13/11/2007, T. Shahab <tshahab@jamiahamdard.ac.in > wrote:

The initiative taken by the various centres of CDAC regarding the
million book project is no doubt commendable. But we can not call it
enough on the scale of number of documents digitised so far and the
quality of metadata being maintained to help in retieving materials on
any specific subject, say "Biochemistry or Pharmacology or Toxicology".
Moreover, it appears that only 107761 books with 32491737 pages have
been so far converted into digitised format rather than one million (ie
10 lakh?) as claimed. Let us continue and improve, welcome more
libraries to join in this cooperative endeavour!
Regards.

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[mailto:lis-forum-bounces@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ] On Behalf Of Subbiah
Arunachalam
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:54 AM
To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in; franc@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ;
thulasi@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
Subject: [LIS-Forum] Reply to Puna Das from the Milion Books project

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@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:49:01 +0000 (GMT)
>> From: Puna Das < puna_05@yahoo.co.in>
>> To: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in
>> CC: digilib_india@yahoogroups.com,
>> atanu.garai@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@yahoo.co.in
>>   Ph. 011-26704400
>>
>>

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