British Religion in Number
British Religion in Numbers, http://www.brin.ac.uk, has been officially launched. Please feel free to invite people to visit the site and explore the source catalogue, tables, charts, maps and text we have uploaded to date.
The site is (and always will be) a work in progress and we are still uploading data and commentaries, so please visit recurrently to see what we have added.
We also wanted to publicise the ‘blog’ feature (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news) and to encourage people to comment on the posts already made. Since we added this feature in January, we have posted 73 articles on new surveys and resources, research notes, and comments on news stories.
See further: http://www.brin.ac.uk/about/
Andrew Whitehead – images and interviews
Please follow link to hear some of the radio programmes Andrew Whitehead made in 1997 which feature the memories of those who lived through Partition.
Also on the website are details of the interviews conducted for the series, which have been deposited in the SOAS archive.
http://www.andrewwhitehead.net/partition-voices.html
SOAS Digital Archives and Special Collections
The Library, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK
Self-description:
“SOAS is a leader in the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and our library with its Archives & Special Collections is the HEFCE-designated National Research Library for these regions of the world. We are in the process of putting our collections of rare manuscripts, books, photographs, audio and film material on-line, to be freely available for everyone. The first collection to be made available is the photographic archive of Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf (1909-1995). This collection is widely recognised as the world’s most comprehensive visual documentation of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas. [...] This Web site is under continual development, so please check back frequently for new features.”
Digital library on Sikhs launched
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 20
Pages of rare manuscripts, books, magazines , newspapers and photographs on the Sikhs and Punjab will be available at www.PanjabDigiLib. org on the Internet at Panjab Digital Library launched by the Nanakshahi Trust and the Research Institue ( SikhRi) today.
Since 2003 PDL has been selecting , collecting, preserving digitising texts regardless of script , language, religion , nationality etc.
“ Preservation of heritage, research and education have been victim of apathy in Punjabi. PDL is humble offering to people’ said Harinder singh , executive director SikhRI. Information in rare manuscripts and literature of the region can be accessed with the click of mouse.
A document on being digitised will be accessible long after the original ceases to exis . PDL developed Central digital archive in six years which allows electronic access to browsing data in seconds.
The digital library do away with barriers of conventional library.
PDL has been preserving over 25 lakh folios from 3,400 manuscripts, 2,200 book , 1,990 issues of periodicals ,3153 photographs 248,000 legal documents ‘ , said Gurvinder Asingh PDL’s US coordinator ,
Information on institutions like the SGPC, the DSGMC, Government Museum and Art Gallery , Chandigarh , Chief Khalsa Diwan Punjab Languages Department, Kurukshetra University , critical works of Prof Pritam Singh , Dr Man Singh Nirankari, Dr Kirpal Singh , Dr madanjit Kaur, and Prof Gurtej Singh are accessible at PDL.
It is non- profit , non- governmental set- up, devoted to preserving Punjab archives, said Gurnihal Singh Pirzada a director.
At least 50,000 pages were being added every week to the websit , said Davinder Pal Singh co- founder.
http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/mainpage.jsp If you have used the digital library, do leave some comments about it functions and usability.
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