Dear Friends and colleagues, Launching of the online catalogue of the documentary resources of the IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry) The IFP officially launched, on December 18, 2007, the online catalogue of its documentary resources, in the presence of the Minister for Education of the Government of Puducherry, the Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai, and numerous invitees (researchers, librarians, members of cultural institutions, etc.). This catalogue, accessible on the Internet, contains the entire collection of books of the Institute (59000 documents in the domains of Indology, Social Sciences and Ecology) and allows to search and display, for the first time in India, records in Indian scripts (Sanskrit, Tamil etc.) and in Roman transliteration (for the books in Indology). It also enables to display the list of recent acquisitions made by the library. Access to the catalogue (from the WEB page of the Institute's library): http://www.ifpindia.org/-Library-.html Thanking you, with regards, Mr. G. Saravanan Librarian French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis Street, P.B. 33 PONDICHERRY - 605 001 South India, INDIA Ph: 0091 - 413 - 2334168 Extn. 126/139 Fax: 0091 - 413 2339534 Mail : saravanan.g@ifpindia.org Web : www.ifpindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.