GLAM/Newsletter/August 2025/Contents/India report
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Digitization starts at two more libraries in West Bengal
Digitization starts at Federation Hall Library, Kolkata
The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has started a GLAM project with the century-old Federation Hall Library, Kolkata from August, 2025. A CZur ET 18 Pro scanner has been purchased and installed at the library. Amitabha Gupta, a Wikimedian from the region, is assigned to digitize the public domain collections of the library. He will be responsible for selection, digitization and uploading of the contents on Wikimedia sites. The paid position will be taken care of by a general support fund from this year from a portion dedicated to Bangla Wikisource.
Digitization set-up at Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram, Ghoshaldanga
As part of an ongoing GLAM project with Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust, a trustee-run grass-root level organization serving Santal communities in the two villages of Ghosaldanga and Bishunbati situated in the district of Birbhum in West Bengal, India, the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has installed a CZur ET 18 Pro scanner into the premises of Rolf Schoembs Vidyashram run by the organization. Two persons from the organization were trained to operate the scanner, who will be responsible for relicensing books on Santal literature, culture and heritage written in different languages by different authors from around the region.
