Friday 30 September 2016

[WhatsUpUoH] Request to Subscribe to "Sugamya Pustakalaya", Online Library for Blind & Print Disabled - reg.

Sir/Madam,

This is to request the University Library (IGML) to subscribe to the "Sugamya Pustakalaya", India's First & Largest Online Library for Blind & Print Disabled, so that all the blind and print disabled persons of India and World can benefit from the Braille collection of the university. University students would also gain from vast collection worldwide.

Link for Library subscription:
https://library.daisyindia.org/NALP/libraryLink.action

Some info. about the online library:

  • The department of empowerment of persons with disabilities (DEPwD) has launched 'Sugamya Pustakalaya' - an online library for Persons with print disabilities as part of the Accessible India Campaign.
  • Created in collaboration with National Institute of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), member organizations of Daisy Forum of India (DFI), Bookshare and powered by TCS Access.
  • Lakhs of people with visual impairment will benefit from this programme.
  • Users will be able to get books anywhere in the country at a single location.
  • It will enable each member organisation to provide services to their members and draw on resources of all other organisations of the country.
  • The e-library platform will work in collaboration with international agencies such as 'Bookshare' and 'Accessible Books Consortium' to make accessible books from all over the world available to users in India.
  • HRD minister pledged support to the e-library initiative.
  • Users can access a collection of more than 2,00,000 books, maintain their individual reading shelves online and also download books in chosen formats. 

Regards,
Raja debashis
Ph.D. Research Scholar
SMS, UoH.


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