Resource: New project of the Digital South Asia Library - LASA (Libraries and Archives in South Asia) wiki
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From Jim Nye [mailto]jnye@midway.uchicago.edu[/mailto]
Dear H-Asia members,
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. As an example, see the entry for the Roja Muthiah Research Library
We hope to add new features, as the wiki develops. We invite all contributions.
The wiki can be accessed at [url]http://dsal.uchicago.edu/lasa/[/url]
LASAwiki is a project of the Digital South Asia Library (DSAL) developed by the University of Chicago Library with support from the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. The LASA wiki was created by Samip Mallick, Assistant Bibliographer for Southern Asia at the University of Chicago Library.
James Nye
Digital South Asia Library
University of Chicago