Excellent news. Glad to see this. Thanks for sharing. Regards. :) On Thu, Jul 4, 2019, 9:11 PM Sailesh Patnaik <sailesh.patnaik...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That’s a great News! Congratulations team :) > > On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 5:15 PM, Sanket Oswal <sankos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> >> >> Wikimedia India (WMIN) is happy to announce The Library at Nehru Memorial >> Museum [1] and Library, New Delhi (NMML) is now available for Wikimedians. >> The library which is exclusive for use by research scholars representing a >> particular Institute can now also be availed by Wikimedians and WMIN is >> happy to facilitate the same. >> >> >> >> The Library has a collection of mainly Pre-Independent India documents >> such as >> >> · 267 Thousand printed books >> >> · 200 Thousand Photographs Of Pandit Nehru and Other Freedom >> Fighters >> >> · 18,231 Microfilms of private paper, missionary records, >> newspapers and old journals. >> >> · 51,322 Microfiche plates of research material etc. >> >> >> >> WMIN encourages the community to use the Library and work towards our >> common goal of making content on Wikimedia Projects better every day. >> Whosoever interested may drop a mail at chap...@wikimedia.in / >> abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in. >> >> >> >> We also encourage the community to drop suggestions on how to further >> enhance this partnership. Sharing a few suggestions: >> >> >> >> · NMML has expressed its interest in releasing a set of document >> on a pilot basis to be transcribed on Wikisource. We may ask them to >> request documents on a specific thematic area wherever the community is >> more interested in working. >> >> >> >> · NMML is interested in hosting Wikimedia Workshops to train the >> common public and also their staff. >> >> >> >> · NMML has shown interest in having #1lib1ref workshops. >> >> >> >> · NMML plans to release their digitised documents in future on a >> web-portal with a paywall and has shown their interest to be a part of The >> Wikipedia Library (this is for long term). >> >> >> >> Please feel free to drop suggestions so that we can take them up during >> our next meeting and make the best for our movement. >> >> >> >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru_Memorial_Museum_%26_Library >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Sanket Oswal, >> >> Wikimedia India >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > -- > Sailesh Patnaik "ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ" > Community Advocate, The Centre for Internet and Society > https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 > Twitter: @saileshpat > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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