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Foundation of Library and Information Science

Notes Nalanda Digital Library: Nalanda Digital Library is the result of the ongoing Digital
Library initiative at National Institute of Technology, Calicut Library. Nalanda Project
aims at a full-fledged Digital Library at NITC to cater to the increasing demand for
information resources from the Campus User Community as well as from Remote Users
from rest of the Country. Some resources are open to all; otherwise they are redistricted to
NITC campus and their recognised users. At present, it is in evolving stage.

Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and E-Scholarship Portal is planning to develop repository
for Indian doctoral thesis. At present, it provides access to metadata of Indian thesis and
Universities. Few full text thesis [ETDs] are presently available in its database. It started as
a project in 2000 with support from NISSAT, Govt. of India. Now with the support from
Ford Foundation and Microsoft India it is evolving as a national initiative. It welcome’s
Universities and Researchers to participate in this programme. The project is based at
Dept. of Library and Information Science, Mysore University, Mysore, Karnataka.

10.3.2 International

From the International perspectives, the directories of Digital Library Resources are as follows:

Alaxanderia Digital Library Project: The Alexandria Digital Library is a distributed digital
library with collections of geo-referenced materials. ADL includes the operational library,
with various nodes and collections, and the research program through which digital
library architectures, gazetteer applications, educational applications, and software
components are modelled, prototyped, and evaluated.

Notes ADL provides HTML clients to access its collections and gazetteer, and provides
specific information management tools, such as the Feature Type Thesaurus for classing
types of geographic features, as well as downloadable software code.
California Digital Library: California Digital Library contains digital collection of
University of California campuses.
Collect Britain: Putting history in place is a collection of maps, prints and drawings,
photographs and documents, rare early sound recordings from around the globe. It has
been developed by British Library using its collections.
Cornell Library Historical Mathematical Monographs: Cornell Library Historical
Mathematical Monographs is a collection of selected monographs with expired copyrights
chosen from the mathematics field.

Digital Library of Commons: Digital Library of Commons is a gateway to the international
literature on the commons. This site contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted
papers, a full-text Digital Library, and links to relevant reference sources on the study of
the commons.
Digital Library for Earth System Education [DLESE]: Digital Library for Earth System
Education is a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about
the Earth system. DLESE is funded by the National Science Foundation and is being built
by a community of educators, students, and scientists to support Earth system education at
all levels.

Digital Library of Historical Directories: Digital Library of Historical Directories is a
digital library of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade
directories from England and Wales.

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