Afghanistan Digital Library

http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/index.html

09 Aug 2010

New York University Libraries, New York, NY, USA.

Self-description:
"The immediate objective of the Afghanistan Digital Library is to retrieve and restore the first sixty years of AfghanistanÕs published cultural heritage. The project is collecting, cataloging, digitizing, and making available over the Internet as many Afghan publications from the period 1871?1930 as it is possible to identify and locate. In addition to books, this will eventually include all published serials, documents, pamphlets, and manuals. Phase 1 of the project, undertaken in 2005, has drawn materials from the collections of several private collectors as well as from the holdings of New York University Library and the British Library. Phase 2, undertaken in 2006, has trained a staff at the National Archives in Kabul in conservation and digitization and is engaged in the cataloging and digitization of materials held in various public and private collections inside Afghanistan."

Site contents:
* Search [for details of 383 digitised books]
* Show All (Title, Author, Publication, Subjects, Original Book [details], Digital Book [details], Object Number, Citation Link, Downloadable PDF [Url], Other Contributors, Statement of responsibility, Transliterated, Note(s))
* Sort Options (Title, Author, Publication);
* Contact;
* About Afghanistan Digital Library;
* Related Sites (Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection [U. of Nebraska at Omaha]: Digitizing the Collection [http://library.unomaha.edu/research/apac.htm] The Agriculture Electronic Library [http://alic.arid.arizona.edu/afghanistan/index.html]);
* Bibliography of texts [from Afghanistan] (Books, Documents, Newspapers).

URL http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/index.html

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

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