Having already hooked on to the Wi-Fi bandwagon, the University of Pune (UoP) is on course for its next tech venture: an e-library that will make over 4,000 journals available to students and researchers. The Rs 30-lakh project undertaken by the Jaykar Library of the University of Pune will soon be functional.
As part of the US-based Carnegie Mellon Universitys Universal Digital Library Project more than 2,000 books in Jaykar Library have already been scanned. Already, over 800 of them have been uploaded on the global information knowledge superway, chief librarian S K Patil said.
He said the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the nodal agency for Universal Digital Library project. Along with Hyderabad University and University of Tirupati, IISc has identified UoP as the content provider for the project, Patil said.
However, the facility will not be free of cost but comes at a nominal charge. Like any other cyber cafe, we will charge a nominal fee of Rs 10 per hour for use of the e-facility. We will also be providing printer facility for the researchers, he said.
And if there is a concern of power cuts eating into precious hours of the students and researchers time, Patil has a solution for it too. The e-library will have a three-hour back up, he said. The Jaykar e-library all facilities to send e-mails will be blocked. The e-library will be a knowledge centre and not a cyber cafe, Patil added.
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