Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Teen Murti Library archives to go online

The first edition of the archives of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library will go online within six months as the institution launches a project to digitise the vast amount of information it preserves, Director Mridula Mukherjee said on Wednesday.

The digitisation programme, which started in partnership with the HCL Infosystems, has begun its first phase of preservation, part of which will be accessible to the people online soon.

"We hope to go online with the first set of archives - documents, letters, newspapers etc - we turn digital in the next six months. This will be a pilot project for us and will pave way for the complete digitisation work," she said at the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Foundation Day Lecture, 2010 on the eve of the 44th anniversary of the foundation of the institution.

The NMML is also overhauling the Nehru Planetarium, to make it replete with latest technology instruments and projectors, a project that will take almost six months to complete, she said.

The second Memorial lecture, 'Beyond the Mandela Decade: Reconciliation or Polarisation?' was delivered this year by Ari Sitas of the Capetown University, a renowned poet, writer, and sociologist, who has been associated with the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions of both South Africa and Cyprus.

Minister for Commerce Anand Sharma said the but for a leader like Mandela, who propagated the concept of reconciliation, South Africa could have easily slid into a vortex of violence.

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