BHUBANESWAR: the first digital library of Odisha with more than one lakh digitised pages of of Odia literature will soon be opened on Tuesday in State capital Bhubaneswar.
Manmohan Digital Library is being set up by voluntary organization Srujanika, which works on digitization of literary works, and Kedar Nath Gabesana Pratisthan, a socio-cultural association.
The library is aimed at helping scholars and researchers interested in Odia literary works since 1856. it will have digitised pages of 75 Odia literary magazines and their editions and newspapers published for a century between 1850 to 1950.
The collection includes early editions of literary magazines like ‘Prabodh Chandrika’ started in 1856, ‘Indradhanu’ (1894), ‘Utkal Sahitya’ (1897), ‘Naba Bharat’ volumes of 1934 to 1951, ‘Kumkum’, a handwritten magazine published from the then Bombay in the 1940s besides editions of Utkal Dipika and Baleswar Sambad Bahika, the first two Odia newspapers, and also editions of dailies like Asha and Nabina.
