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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue V, May 2023

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India report

Digitization of Behar Herald starts in Patna

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By Bodhisattwa

Behar Herald newspaper title

Bengalee Association Bihar is an organization based in the city of Patna in the state of Bihar, established during the British colonial rule to protect the rights and preserve the language and culture of the Bengali speaking population residing there. Among its many activities, this organization took the responsibility of publishing the oldest English weekly published from Bihar named Behar Herald since 1938, which started its journey in 1874. Even if the journey of the newspaper was not very smooth due to lack of resources, the quality of its reporting was held in high esteem, with frequent publications of articles from renowned personalities from all over the country. An initiative was taken by the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group to engage with the organization for a GLAM partnership to digitize Behar Herald, which were in a very dire condition without any maintenance due to lack of resources. After the organization authorities have kindly agreed to have their collection digitized, a short visit was taken to check the current condition of the newspapers, catalogue them and to discuss logistics and strategies to run a digitization program. A rapid fund proposal was approved by WMF to purchase a scanner and assign a Wikimedian-in-residence (WiR) to complete the digitization project. A CZUR Pro 18 digital scanner was purchased recently and one WiR has been trained and assigned the task, who has started the digitization process.

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