National Digital Library of India

The National Digital library of India (NDLI) is a project under Ministry of Education, The Government of India. 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. It 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.

Not to be confused with Digital Library of India.

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)
Type of site
Education
Available in10 languages
Headquarters
Kharagpur
,
India
Employees>150 (January 2019)
URLndl.gov.in
CommercialNo
RegistrationFree
Users 20,00,000+ (January 2019)
Current statusActive

History and Timeline[1]

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

The Library was dedicated to the nation on June 19, 2018, by union human resource minister Prakash Javadekar.[4]

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. Books in Urdu and Persian are also available at the NDLI. Examples include "Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain and Makateeb-e-Sanai by Professor Nazir Ahmad.

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:

  • World eBook Library
  • South Asia Archive
  • OECD iLibrary
  • Satyajit Ray Society

Delivery formats

Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play.[5]

Management

The Library is managed by Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

See also

References
  1. "National Digital Library of India". www.ndl.gov.in. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  2. Business Standard, "National Digital Library up in pilot stage", 25 May 2016.
  3. "MHRD Digital Library Press Release" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2017.
  4. "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.
  5. NDL mobile app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhrd.ndl


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