Commissioner Office Wiki Meetup
This meeting was aimed at discussing the scope of digitization of copyright free rare books in the Municipal Libraries.
Date
[edit]29 October, 2019
Venue
[edit]Commissioner Office, Municipal Corporation Patiala
Resource Person
[edit]Wikilover90 and Ankur Mahindru, Joint Commissioner Patiala
Agenda
[edit]- The timeline, sections of the library to be digitized, and staff allocation for cataloguing and digitization was discussed.
- Copyrights of India, Public Domain, policies of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource were discussed.
- Benefits of digitization for preservation of literature in long-term were discussed.
- A staff librarian and another staff member were assigned digitization personnel for the project.