It’s uncommon to find century-old editions of Tamil literary and grammatical texts in a school library. And that’s what makes the library at the Thavathiru Santhalinga Adigalar Arts, Science and Tamil College at Perur close to the town distinctive. The excellent information is that one of the crucial age-old books would quickly get a new rent of existence, as school government have launched into a project to digitize around 1,500 uncommon books from the library’s collection.
The books selected for digitization range from an extraordinary 1880 version of Tholkappiyam to literary and religious treatises. While some of them were already within the library’s collection, others were donated by alumni and others. College librarian S Abirami said they'd been segregating the uncommon and outdated books from the collection for the past 3 months. “Our criterion was that the books should be 100 years outdated. We have picked up books which were revealed from 1880 to 1920,” she said.
What provides value to the library collection is that a number of books in it have not been reprinted and aren't to be had any place, said Abirami. “The collection additionally has a 1920 version of Panchamarabu, a grammatical treatise on track and dance. We imagine it the pleasure of our library, as it isn't easy to find it somewhere else,” she added. The library additionally has a collection of ‘sthalapuranas’ (temple histories) of around 900 temples.
Two scholars are now involved in scanning the books and digitizing them. “We have up to now scanned 30% of the selected books,” Abirami said. Pointing out that there were sporadic efforts to digitize the collections up to now five years, she said the paintings has been going on in full swing for the past two months.
They have set a target to scan no less than 50 small books an afternoon. If the books are voluminous, the task is lower down to a unmarried e-book per day. “The volume of books up to now scanned will come around two terabyte (TB). We have stored them in arduous disks,” Abirami said.
College most important V Rajeswari said they decided to digitize the books as a number of of them were in a foul form. “Our collection is unequalled no less than in this region. Several editions of grammatical commentaries that we have cannot be simply found,” she said.
Though the library and its wealth are lesser known within the town, it is standard some of the researchers and students. Research scholars from Chennai, Tanjavur, Namakkal and Thoothukudi common the library for its uncommon collection and for the wealth of doctoral thesis publications it has.
Presently, the digitizing paintings is being performed with two scanners. College government said they were making plans to send a proposal to get price range from the ministry of culture throughout the nationwide archives to get extra scanners and computer systems, besides manpower, to finish the paintings. “We are getting ready the proposal. It can be send within the coming week,” Abirami said.
After the digitization paintings, the titles would be enlisted within the school website online. Soft copies would be given to the interested other people, she added.
Officials with the dep. of archives and historical analysis said the ministry of culture would fund the recovery and preservation paintings in museums, archives, libraries or personal collections through its central monetary help. They said they'd asked the college to send a proposal in this regard.
“There would be a state-level screening committee, which can imagine the proposal and send it to the Centre for approval. The Centre will bear 75% of the project value. Private collections can get funding up to Rs 10 lakh,” said A Rajappa, assistant commissioner of coaching, Tamil Nadu archives.
The books selected for digitization range from an extraordinary 1880 version of Tholkappiyam to literary and religious treatises. While some of them were already within the library’s collection, others were donated by alumni and others. College librarian S Abirami said they'd been segregating the uncommon and outdated books from the collection for the past 3 months. “Our criterion was that the books should be 100 years outdated. We have picked up books which were revealed from 1880 to 1920,” she said.
What provides value to the library collection is that a number of books in it have not been reprinted and aren't to be had any place, said Abirami. “The collection additionally has a 1920 version of Panchamarabu, a grammatical treatise on track and dance. We imagine it the pleasure of our library, as it isn't easy to find it somewhere else,” she added. The library additionally has a collection of ‘sthalapuranas’ (temple histories) of around 900 temples.
Two scholars are now involved in scanning the books and digitizing them. “We have up to now scanned 30% of the selected books,” Abirami said. Pointing out that there were sporadic efforts to digitize the collections up to now five years, she said the paintings has been going on in full swing for the past two months.
They have set a target to scan no less than 50 small books an afternoon. If the books are voluminous, the task is lower down to a unmarried e-book per day. “The volume of books up to now scanned will come around two terabyte (TB). We have stored them in arduous disks,” Abirami said.
College most important V Rajeswari said they decided to digitize the books as a number of of them were in a foul form. “Our collection is unequalled no less than in this region. Several editions of grammatical commentaries that we have cannot be simply found,” she said.
Though the library and its wealth are lesser known within the town, it is standard some of the researchers and students. Research scholars from Chennai, Tanjavur, Namakkal and Thoothukudi common the library for its uncommon collection and for the wealth of doctoral thesis publications it has.
Presently, the digitizing paintings is being performed with two scanners. College government said they were making plans to send a proposal to get price range from the ministry of culture throughout the nationwide archives to get extra scanners and computer systems, besides manpower, to finish the paintings. “We are getting ready the proposal. It can be send within the coming week,” Abirami said.
After the digitization paintings, the titles would be enlisted within the school website online. Soft copies would be given to the interested other people, she added.
Officials with the dep. of archives and historical analysis said the ministry of culture would fund the recovery and preservation paintings in museums, archives, libraries or personal collections through its central monetary help. They said they'd asked the college to send a proposal in this regard.
“There would be a state-level screening committee, which can imagine the proposal and send it to the Centre for approval. The Centre will bear 75% of the project value. Private collections can get funding up to Rs 10 lakh,” said A Rajappa, assistant commissioner of coaching, Tamil Nadu archives.
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