Digital resource centre opened in AMU

Updated on: Friday, March 20, 2009

Digitalising about 16,000 manuscripts and 5,000 rare books in different languages will be taken up by a hi-tech resource centre, which was
opened in the Aligarh Muslim University on Monday.

Set in the Maulana Azad library of the institution, the centre has an online cataloguing facility with a campus wide internet  link, which would help students and faculty members of different departments have an access to the lists of books.

AMU Vice Chancellor, Prof P K Abdul Aziz said that a new wing in the Maulana Azad Library would also be set up, for which the central government had announced a grant of Rs 5 crore.

The university also plans to digitalize all classrooms in different faculties.

 

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