Great! congratulations. On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 3:45 PM Sanket Oswal <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] / > [email protected]. > > > > 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 > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- *Satpal*
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