Ms Nagarathna's query prompts one to think: Have we not failed miserably in developing proper bibliographic tools? How can one compile a comprehensive bibliography without an up to date national bibliography? The situation in case of books in Indian languages is even worse. The Indian common person has to depend on the daily newspapers, popular magazines, etc., for info on new books being published in India. In fact, these media have been rendering an yeomen service to the cause of Indian publishing. Ex: The Hindu Book Review Supplement on Tuesdays, Tribune (Chandigarh), etc. In spite of technological advances, we are in a situation where we do not have accurate statistics of book production in India. It is almost impossible to have a complete perspective of the total Indian publishing output. Even after spending hundreds of crores on networks, we cannot know in which university/public/special library a particular book/journal is available. Isn't it high time to provide the Indian common person a single window or a gateway to Indian libraries where he/she can post the query? Can't we have the presence of all Indian librarians/reference librarians/volunteers at this window to answer queries through email until all our libraries are networked online? Sometimes, I feel that lot of significant and useful work had been done during the pre-ICT era. How long are we going to neglect the bibliographic control of Indian publications? How much grey literature originating from India is just missing our attention? How long are we going to duplicate cataloguing/classification work in all our libraries? By the way, as for Ms Nagarathna's query, I would try to send the contact details of a few Telugu publishers shortly: Another good source for Telugu books in this area is: <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><smaller>Dr. Velaga Venkatappaiah, 4-22-27 Ithanagaram, Tenali - 522 201, Andhra Pradesh Ph: 08644 - 228585 A walking encyclopedia on Telugu books! T.V. Prafulla Chandra </color><FontFamily><param>Arial</param><bigger>From: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>"A.V. Nagarathna" <<avn@jncasr.ac.in></color> Date sent: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:48:06 +0530 (IST)</color> To: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in</color> <bold>Subject: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>[LIS-Forum] Regarding "POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS BY INDIAN AUTHORS"</bold></color> <underline><color><param>0000,8000,0000</param>[ Double-click this line for list subscription options ]</underline></color> Dear LIS Professionals, I am looking for information relating to list of Popular Science Books authored/edited by Indians (all languages if possible). I request you to provide me the source where I can find this information. Thank you all for your help. Best regards, A.V. Nagarathna Documentation Centre Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research Jakkur, Bangalore 560064, Karnataka. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NISC Export Services Pvt. Ltd. (an affiliate of NISC International, Inc. USA) S-1 Ballad Estates, St.Ann's School Road, Tarnaka, Hyderabad 500 017 Andhra Pradesh, India - Tel:+91 40 27001517 Tel/Fax:+91 40 27002538 WWW.NISC.COM A company in service to NISC worldwide. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------