National_Digital_Library_of_India

National Digital Library of India

National Digital Library of India

Virtual repository of learning resources

Not to be confused with Digital Library of India.

The National Digital library of India is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not just a repository with a search/browse facilities but also provides a host of services including textbooks, articles, videos, audiobooks, lectures, simulations, fiction, and all other kinds of learning media for the learners/users community. It is a project under Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). The objective is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books and designed to hold content of any languages and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is developed, operated and maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.[1]

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History and timeline

The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016.[2][3][4]

The Library was dedicated to the nation on June 19, 2018, by the Union Human Resource Minister Prakash Javadekar.[5]

As of April 2019, NDLI hosts over 4,58,25,715 (4.5 crore+) items in its repository, with over 1,50,000 volumes in English.

Languages

The scanning of Indian language books has led to the development of Indian language optical character recognition (OCR) software. The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a digital repository comprising textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free access to many books in the Indian languages and English.

Access and restrictions

User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:

  • World eBook Library
  • South Asia Archive
  • OECD iLibrary
  • Satyajit Ray Society

Management

The Library is managed by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "National Digital Library of India". ndl.iitkgp.ac.in. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. [2]
    "National Digital Library of India". www.ndl.gov.in. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  3. [3]
    Business Standard, "National Digital Library up in pilot stage", 25 May 2016.
  4. [4]
    "MHRD Digital Library Press Release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Union HRD Minister dedicates the National Digital Library of India to the Nation | Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development". mhrd.gov.in. Retrieved 8 July 2019.



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