21 Sep 2000

Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
Center for Research Libraries, University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, USA
Supplied note: "A global collaborative effort to make important and rare resources available to the international community. [...] DSAL has acquired permission to digitize and scan an array of important resources from a variety of institutions, thereby making access to rare materials a reality for scholars worldwide. [...] Participants in DSAL include CRL, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, other institutions in South Asia, and leading universities in the U.S."
Site contents: Reference Resources; Bibliographies and Union Lists; Images; Indexes; Maps; Books and Journals; Statistics; Other Internet Resources [wisely and efficiently DSAL does not compile a brand new catalog of relevant links, but takes advantage of the existing expert resource at Columbia U., namely it makes a link to SARAI (www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/) - ed.]; About DSAL; Site Map; Copyright; Contact Information; Search this Site; Funding; Participating; Institutions.
[Site under intensive construction. Its full usefulness will become apparent in in the next few months - ed.]
URL http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dsal
Link suggested by: Michael Khoo (cas@spot.colorado.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential