Modernization Activities
The Computer Division is the youngest division in the Library.
It was established in 1988 to augment the modernisation activities
in the Library. It started with a Mini Computer- HP 3000. MINISIS,
a RDBMS software was installed for bibliographic control activities.
In 2001 the Library switched over to Client-Server Environment
with SUN E450 as the server. At present a Campus Wide Network
is being developed with 98 HP Pentium III PCs as nodes. |
The Computer Division |
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Digitisation (Down the
memory lane)
The scanning and archiving or rare and brittle books and other
documents on compact disc is under taken. English books and documents
published before 1900 and Indian publications of pre 1920 are
considered for digitisation. So far 6,600 selected books in Indian
and English languages have already been scanned and stored on
548 CDs -- a total of over 25,00,000 pages. |
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Some of the notable titles
already archived on the CDs are: |
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Documents of East India Company, e.g. Report of the proceedings
of the East India Company in regard to the production of cotton
wool :1788. |
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Bengal selection of records : 1826 |
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Prabasi - a journal in Bengali |
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Land settlement reports |
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Earliest book archived on
CD is entitled: |
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The fam'd romance rendered into English by Charles Cotterell
: 1667 |
Orunudoi |
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Les voyages de Jean Struys en Moscovie : 1720 |
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Calcutta Monthly Magazine : 1797 |
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Orunudoi Samvad Patra (a monthly magazine in Assamese) of 1846,
1853, and 1856 - 1858 |
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Pothi Bhai Valam : 1891, in Punjabi |
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Examples of the scanned pages |
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Illustration in Basumati : B.S.1333
- a Bengali Journal |
One of the black & white illustrations |
Part of a page from the 'Prabasi Journal' |
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