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MLS Dec 2015.Pmd View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by E-LIS Akademi Digital Library: A Haven of Cultural Heritage in Local Languages and Scripts K. Rajendran Introduction Kerala Sahitya Akademi has been established for the promotion and development of Malayalam language and literature. The major activities the Akademi undertakes to achieve its objectives consist of collection, organization, conservation, preservation and dissemination of documents including manuscripts, printed books, journals, audio and video records, digitized data bases and other information sources. The collections and library and information services of the Akademi are spread over its two campuses. First is the library in the main campus of the Akademi at the heart of Thrissur city. Second is the Appan Thampuran Smarakam. Together they form the most important collection in the state on Kerala’s literature and culture. This paper focuses on the application of Information Communication Technology for the modernization of library and information system of Kerala Sahitya Akademi Library. I C T Application at Akademi Libraries and Archives originated when people began to realize the importance of preserving knowledge and information for future use. The document and record keeping practice had been first developed by Sumerians and later by the Catholic Church, and later numerous similar organizations continued the practice. The Indus study reveals that Indians possessed the art of writing more than five thousand years ago. In South India, the Sangam period produced an ocean of literature or documents in palm leaves. 42 MALAYALAM LITERARY SURVEY The princely state of Travancore used palm collection in the Appan Thampuran leaves as writing materials for administrative Smarakam mainly consists of bound and other purpose till the middle of the 20th volumes of journals published during the last century. The writing materials evolved quarter of 19th century. These contain 10000 through boorja patra (bark of the Himalayan bound volumes of periodicals, and they have birch tree), stone, copper plates, cloths, palm archival value as well as research value. The leaf of manuscripts and paper. Now CD preservation of these materials in the present ROMs, hard disks and other digital storage form is risky, as the degradation of the paper media are the common devices for recording will ultimately spoil all information contained and conserving knowledge. Manuscripts, in these documents. Transforming these paper with printed text and images, audio, documents into digital media is the only way videocassettes, CDs and other analog and to preserve these valuable materials. digital collections are commonly called Formerly Akademi’s education and research documents. Now the libraries and archives system failed to extract the full utility of the collect such records to develop a store house resources. Akademi finds it is very difficult to of information relevant either to the area they cope with the growing demand of the serve or concerning all facts of human life. researchers and general public. To solve this Historians, scientists, researchers and other problem Akademi started the modernization writers are fully dependent upon the program in the Library and Information documents and records for their work. We system. are now witnessing revolutionary changes in Digital Archiving all spheres of human activity especially in the Library and Information Centers due to The terms Digital Libraries, Digital Archives, the influence of information and Electronics Libraries and ‘Virtual Libraries’ denote almost the same system but with a communication technologies. little difference in their characteristics. Digital Library Scenario Libraries have the following facilities. Its Akademi libraries hold a major portion of resource can be searched and retrieved published works in Malayalam and such a through an electronic catalogue and the reliable collection is not available elsewhere digital resources may be distributed through in this specific area. It is unique in quantity a local area network or Internet. Kerala and quality. Many documents in these Sahitya Akademi has a well-established collections are old and rare and have digital library. It has a digital lab also which research value in addition to general interest. has the capacity to undertake digitization of So Akademi’s libraries have become the all rare materials available. Kerala Sahitya focal point of research on languages, Akademi Digital Library is hosted in the web literature and culture of the region. Kerala and can be used from distinct locations Sahitya Akademi Library resources provide through Internet. Library’s special and support to education and research unique collections are digitized and kept in programmes on Malayalam language, Servers, Hard disks, and CDs etc. to ensue literature and Kerala studies. The collections conservation. Digitizing the rare collection in in the main campus of the Akademi contain the library is very important for better one lakh and thirty thousand books. Its preservation and content management. The multimedia collection contains 1200 audio Digital Library and information system of CD’s, and 500 video CDs as well as 1500 Akademi has already completed scanning microfilm reels of old and rare Malayalam and processing more than 12 lakhs of books. The library is also a unique collection pages. At present Akademi has 6000 of manuscripts pictures and paintings. The digitized books as well as the digital copies MALAYALAM LITERARY SURVEY 43 of Malayalam journals published from the they want from the Akademi site. This fulfills last quarter of 19th century and the early 20th Akademi’s greatest ambition to provide century. Examples of some of the journals copyright-free Malayalam content to the held by the digital collections are the public. Akademi is trying to collect the digital following. versions of almost all known titles in Mangalodayam, volumes published from the Malayalam published between 1772 to 1900. year 1877 Akademi has also initiated efforts to print and share limited copies of very old, rare and Vidya Vinodhini ‘’ important Malayalam books and distribute 1889 them to various libraries in Kerala in order to Bhashaposhini ‘’ make rare books available to the public. 1893 The Digital Information given by Akademi is The collection includes almost the full sets of in a readily accessible manner. The most of the old Malayalam journals Information can be made available to published for short periods in the last quarter maximum number of users at any time. The of 19th century and the first half of 20th search engine meant for search and retrieval century. of information from the metadata was The books in the Digital Collections include developed by Akademi itself. Depending on Samkshepavethartham, the first Malayalam the fields of the bibliography such as Book published in 1777, Cheru Paithangalkku subject, author, title, file numbers etc Upakarartham Englishil Ninnum information can be retrieved using Paribhashappeduthiya Kathakal, the first Malayalam script from the database through Malayalam text printed in Kerala in 1824, the search engine software. The features Seethankal Thullal by Kunjan Nambiar available in the software are; module for published in 1853, Ambareeshacharitham capturing images and module for entering published in 1897 etc. The collection includes data from the datasheet provided and linking most of the books published in 18th and 19th the images with this data. century. Manuscripts of eminent Malayalam Malayala Grandhasooji writers, speeches of eminent personalities, Malayala Granthasooji is a unique initiative of photos, pictures etc are also included in the Kerala Sahitya Akademi to find an effective digital collections of Akademi. These digital solution to the growing demand of the documents are available to the researchers researchers and general public interested in from the on line digital library of the texts in Malayalam language and other Akademi. source materials. Implementation of Akademi provides more than 1000 copyright- information and communication technology free books, which are uploaded in the web. to Malayala Grandhasooji was the first step in Users through the Digital Library of India the modernization project of Kerala Sahitya (DLI) can also down load them. The meta- Akademi. Kerala Sahitya Akademi prepared data was also prepared and published in the a complete bibliography of published books web. At present Akademi is the only in Malayalam in 7 volumes till the year 1995. contributor of Malayalam books to Digital Sri. K. M. Govi , the earliest of professional Library of India. Now Kerala Sahitya librarians in Kerala and renowned Akademi is a major contributor to the Digital Bibliographer was the editor of these Library of India and its name is listed in the volumes. Akademi has developed a software home page of DLI. From the links available for the Digital Management of the complete with retrieved metadata any one can easily Bibliography of published works in download the puff version of the document Malayalam compiled by K M Govi. 44 MALAYALAM LITERARY SURVEY Model ICT Project for Local Scripts Audio – Video Collections The Malayala Grandhasooji converted into Kerala Sahitya Akademi Digital collection electronic format was a project that initiated contains a large number of audio files of revolutionary change in application of ICT for numerous Malayalam writers. It is the audio managing local content in regional
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