2908, 2018

Two Centuries of Indian Print Project – skills-sharing between the UK and South Asia

By Galia Umansky|August 29, 2018|Uncategorized|0 comments

Alia Carter As well as digitising and making available rare and unique books, the Two Centuries of Indian Print Project also works with South Asian institutions to engage and promote capacity-building and skills-sharing elements between the UK and South Asia. As part of this two skills-sharing and exchange programmes were organised with the National Library of India (NLI).  These programmes took place in September 2017 and November 2017 and were

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0108, 2018

Workshop for South Asian Archivists and Librarians – 4th to the 8th July 2018

By Galia Umansky|August 1, 2018|Uncategorized|15 comments

Alia Carter As part of the Two Centuries of Indian Print Project, the project is delivering a series of digital skills workshops and training sessions at Indian institutions to support innovative digital humanities research within South Asian studies. Members of the Two Centuries of Indian Print team have recently just returned from a fascinating trip to Delhi where we took part in an Archivists’ workshop – with packed program of

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2405, 2018

Digitisation of ‘Quarterly Lists’: Catalogues of Indian Books

By Galia Umansky|May 24, 2018|Uncategorized|0 comments

Tom Derrick As well as digitising rare early printed Indian books, the Two Centuries of Indian Print project is making available online some wonderful catalogues held by the library, generally known as the Quarterly Lists, recording all books published quarterly and by province of British India between 1867 and 1947. Some of the lists can already be viewed through the British Library catalogue. A full list of the Quarterly Lists that are

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1903, 2018

Working on rare and fragile 19th Century Bengali books at SOAS

By Farzana Whitfield|March 19, 2018|Uncategorized|2 comments

Priyanka Basu has identified about 30 Bengali texts from the 19th century, at our off site Egham repository. These will be looked at closely for metadata enhancement, to assess whether they should be added to our fragile or rare classmark sequence in SOAS Library, (closed access) or are duplicated on our online card catalogue. They are regarded as priority works due to the nature of their subject, their physical status

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0712, 2017

Cataloguing Bengali rare books

By Farzana Whitfield|December 7, 2017|Uncategorized|0 comments

As one of the co-investigators on the project I have been working with a Bengali cataloguer at SOAS, Priyanka Basu who joined us in April 2017 to enhance the metadata of our Bengali library records and identify further unique titles up to 1914.  Pre 1914 South Asian-language printed books are unavailable in other library collections or are extremely difficult to locate and access. With the aid of a Bengali cataloguer

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