Dear Members, the following mail was sent to a personal email id. It is, in turn, being forwarded to lis-forum. Those desirous to respond, may do so directly to Nirmita Narasimhan Thanks, - moderator Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:20 +0530 (IST) From: Nirmita Narasimhan I am Nirmita and am working with Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore, of which Professor Arunachalam is a distinguished fellow. I am working on issues of internet, technology and accessibility for disabled persons and as part of my work I am involved in a project for creating an on line data base of reading resources for visually challenged individuals. CIS is a member of the Daisy Forum of India (DFI). We have in our last meeting decided that all organisations of the DFI shall send us their catalogues which we will compile into a combined catalogue and put up on the inclusiveplanet web site. There are a couple of issues here- the organisations have not strictly conformed to any single manner of maintaining a catalogue and the content comprises books in different formats such as electronic, daisy book, braille level 1, braille level 2, audio and so on. So there are a few things which we need to do, namely, (a) decide on a format which can be followed by all the organisations henceforth for their libraries, (b) specify values for classification, (c) identify a cataloguing software and compiling the catalogue itself. I was wondering if you could help us in any way with that. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Looking forward to your response, best wishes, Nirmita Nirmita Narasimhan Centre for Internet and Society No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore - 560 052 P: +91 80 4092 6283 M: 098458 68078