National Digital Library of India

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National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
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Type of site
Education
Available in11 languages
Headquarters,
Employees>92 (January 2023)
URL ndl.gov.in
CommercialNo
RegistrationFree
Users Increase2.svg 20,00,000+ (January 2019)
Current statusActive

The National Digital library of India is a virtual repository of learning resources which is not only just a repository with a search/browse facilities but also provides a host of services containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media for the learners/users community. It is a project under Ministry of Education, Government of India, through its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). The objective is to collect and collate metadata and provide full text index from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books and designed to hold content of any languages and provides interface support for 10 most widely used Indian languages. It is developed, operated and maintained by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. [1]

Contents

History and timeline

The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016. [2] [3] [4]

The Library was dedicated to the nation on June 19, 2018, by union human resource minister Prakash Javadekar. [5]

As of April 2019, NDLI hosts 4,58,25,715+ (4.5 crore+) items in its repository, with over 1,50,000 volumes in English.

Languages

The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language optical character recognition (OCR) software. This is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in the Indian languages and English.

Access and restrictions

User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:

Delivery formats

Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play. [6]

Management

The Library is managed by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

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References

  1. "National Digital Library of India". ndl.iitkgp.ac.in. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  2. "National Digital Library of India". www.ndl.gov.in. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  3. Business Standard, "National Digital Library up in pilot stage", 25 May 2016.
  4. "MHRD Digital Library Press Release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017.
  5. "Union HRD Minister dedicates the National Digital Library of India to the Nation | Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development". mhrd.gov.in. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
  6. NDL mobile app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhrd.ndl

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