[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 wrote:

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Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 06:49:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Puna Das 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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