IGNOU helps Ministry of Culture @ Creating a National Virtual Library of India
02 May, 2017
Now, search the availability of any
book/ manuscript/ periodical/ journal which you thought is no more available in
your nearest library or a 3D image of any museum artefact with a click of a
mouse. The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is aiding in the
initiative of Ministry of Culture under the National Mission of Libraries by
way of creating a unioncatalogue of libraries across India which apart from
books includes artefacts and other resources from libraries, museums,
archives etc. using open source platform Koha.
Prof. Ravindra Kumar, Vice Chancellor,
IGNOU, during the inaugural session of a five day training workshop organised
by IGNOU in conjunction with the Ministry of Culture and the Raja Rammohun Roy
Library Foundation (RRRLF), Kolkata emphasised the requirement of capacity
building of library professionals especially with the major trend adoption of
ICT applications in all walks of life and Digital India Initiative of
Government of India.
The National Mission on Libraries
(NML) consists of four components: creation of National Virtual Library of
India (NVLI), setting up of NML model libraries, qualitative and quantitative
survey of libraries and capacity building.
IGNOU, along with IIT- Bombay and CDAC
have been entrusted with the responsibility of developing the National Virtual
Library of India (NVLI) under the National Mission on Libraries (NML) which
will be hosting information of the entire Indian cultural heritage in the
digital web world.“Major tasks ahead for IGNOU in this project lies in
collection of bibliographic records of other major libraries across the
country, avoiding reduplication of records, curation of authority lists and
metadata, transliteration interface in Koha, implementation of Indic language
interface in Koha, hands on training and data migration from other library
automation software,” added Prof. Uma Kanjilal, IGNOU.
The workshop on capacity building
programme of national mission on libraries for public library personnel started
yesterday at IGNOU and would last for five days.IGNOU is giving hands on
training to the participants on Koha open source applications in a dedicated
NVLI lab in IGNOU campus, Delhi.
Pankaj Rag, Joint Secretary and
Mission Director, NML, Ministry of Culture suggested innovative ideas to treat
library as not just a repository of books but a fulcrum of activities around
the world.
Dr. Arun Chakraborty, Director
General, Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation informed the gathering
that this is the 11th such program as part of series
conducted by NML to provide hands on training to personnel across libraries run
by the Ministry of Culture and the states.
Deepika Pokharna, Director (Library),
Ministry of Culture, said that, “Ministry’s thruston automation of library
prevails. If you go for RFID technology, you can manage your library well.” She
also mentioned that, even the artefacts of the museums, which cannot be
displayed due to paucity of space, can be converted into 3D images and
digitized. “CDAC has developed software called JATAN that will help in
digitizing it,” she added.
Regards
Pralhad Jadhav
Senior Manager @
Knowledge Repository
Khaitan
& Co
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