24 Apr 2009

Libraries and Archives in South Asia (LASA) wiki
Digital South Asia Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US.
Supplied note:
"The Digital South Asia Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Libraries & Archives in South Asia (LASA) wiki, a collaborative user-driven effort to compile a guide to South Asian libraries and archives for academics and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. The LASA wiki contains detailed information about libraries and archives in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It aims to become a full-fledged portal to research in South Asia, for the scholarly community and by the scholarly community.
Any entry in the wiki can be improved upon with new or updated information. A typical entry contains location, contact information, basic access and collection information and a link to the institution's website when it is available. More detailed information, including maps, photographs, links to online catalogs, etc. are provided when available. [....]
We hope to add new features, as the wiki develops. We invite all contributions.
The wiki can be accessed at [the URL below]
[...] The LASA wiki was created by Samip Mallick, Assistant Bibliographer for Southern Asia at the University of Chicago Library. - jn."
URL http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lasa/
Link reported by: Jim Nye (jnye--at--midway.uchicago.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30