National Library archive online in three years
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All books and the entire archive in the National Library will be digitised and available online in the next three years, Fine Arts Department director-general Bowornwet Rungroojee said yesterday.
Around one million books and printed works are to be catalogued and digitised, he said. The digitisation work has been slowed by budget constraints.
The first lot of books to be digitised will be those free of copyright problems, including those copyrighted by the Fine Arts Department, he said.
Purchasing a sophisticated scanner to speed up the work would require a large amount of money, he added.
The work is in line with government policy and will cover all books and material produced by agencies associated with the National Library, including the National Archives and the National Museum, said Bowornwet.
