Posted on: 14 November 2011

Rare books in city colleges to be digitised
By Deepti Khera
Hindustan Times, Mumbai, November 14, 2011

More than a century-old frayed rare books lying in some of the city’s oldest academic institutions are set to be digitally saved for posterity. In an effort to preserve some of the oldest and rare books dating back to 1800s, the Karimi library at Anjuman-I-Islam High School, CST, in

August started digitising more than 5,000 books such as the Hanuman Chalisa in Urdu and Valmiki’s Ramayana in Persian in August.

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Thanks to Nitin Ashok Bhagawat for suggesting this aerticle.

We only hope that precious resources will not be wasted in digitizing those books which are already available online...as many in the photo above indicate. In fact we have even posted many of the books in the list...on RBSI earlier.

A collection of old Sanskrit and Hindi books collected from various homes in Bundelkhand are stored in an air-conditioned room in a college in Banda. Mr Haris Zaman (RBSI) tells me that they are being digitized. Is there any way all these individual collections could be stored in one central place? This is national treasure that should be preserved for future generations.

Asad Ahmed : I think we can upload them on the Internet Archive. Need to check on that. It is necessary to make these books available on large Institutional databases with fast and reliable servers.

Let us see what Mr Haris Zaman has to say about that.

Asad Ahmed and Haris Zaman : This FAQs page on the Internet Archive will clarify all our doubts for uploading it there : http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#Uploading_Content

I guess, Deccan College, Pune and Library of Royal Asiatic Society of Mumbai, have Microfilm-reader. As per my knowledge, till 2008, those were the only two organisations in India, equipped with this machine. One may contact them in order to get them digitised.