All, I am part of the team at the Archives at NCBS (https://archives.ncbs.res.in/), a public collecting centre for the history of science in contemporary India. We have a mandate to try and preserve physical and digital material within our area of focus, and we are actively looking to work with libraries across India that may have old science journals/magazines and old science books. Please do consider reaching out to us if your library has old material that fits: (a) Science magazines (like Science Today, Science and Culture, Science Reporter, etc) up to 1995 (b) Science related books (not textbooks) published in India that are out of copyright - likely early 20th century. If there is interest, we can work with your library, bring the physical material to our preservation centre in Bangalore, digitize it, and send you back a digital copy. We also do physical conservation work. There is no cost to the library through any of these processes. We are funded through specific grants for this project to enable vast public access to the history of science in contemporary India (~1850 - 1995 is our domain for now). We can offer open-access (not open-use) to this material through our open source archival platform. We have on our website the current catalog for ~150,000 objects, ranging from manuscripts and correspondence to photographs to scientific equipment. In addition to the collections visible on the website, we hold other valuable material like the papers of TSG Sastry, a physicist who worked on the Thumba rocket programme, Leslie Coleman, an early 20th century agricultural scientist in Mysore state, and MS Swaminathan. We are fortunately funded to receive, process, preserve and digitize archival material for the next few years, and this should be a stable resource for generations ahead. We are also leading efforts in developing legal and ethical standards, and digital annotation tools for archival material. A full range of activities undertaken by the archives is in the annual report, https://www.ncbs.res.in/annual-report. Data on our archival catalogue is OAI-PMH compliant, and fully interoperable with archives around the world. Thank you, and looking forward to connecting with the library community and learning more. Thanks, Venkat -- Venkat Srinivasan Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Bellary Road, Bangalore - 560065 venkats@ncbs.res.in | archives@ncbs.res.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.