LIBRARY PORTAL
གསལ་བསྒྲགས་སྦྱར་པང་།
multimedia setion
Multimedia Section of the library acquires, creates, manages and provide services based on Digital collection, Microfiches, Microfilms, Audio cassettes, VHS, DVD, CD collections of the library. The sections also offer services of Reprography, Scanning, Printing, Digital still photos, Live webcast, Managing digital content on social media and digitization of Rare Buddhist text in Tibetan and Sanskrit manuscripts.
Multimedia section keeps up with the changing needs and technology of the time. The section was actively engaged in micro-form in the decade of Eighties; in Nineties section worked with magnetic tapes and now-a-days this section is the epicenter of digitization work for the institute.
The Section is well equipped with the latest ICT infrastructure and the software to create, edit and manage digital documents. The Section is actively engaged in Digitisation of Rare manuscript and other precious documents to digitally preserve the surviving canonical texts. It also records, edit and preserve various academic programmes of the Institute in digital audio-visual and photo forms.
FUNCTION AND SERVICE OFFERED BY THE SECTION
- AUDIO VISUAL
- Audio & Video coverage
- Editing of AV document
- LIVE webcast
- Digital Still Photo coverage
- Uploading content online & archiving
- Designing of Digital poster and Video’s thumbnail
- MICROFILM & MICROFICHE COLLECTION
- Retrieve
- Scanning
- Printing
- Cataloguing
- DIGITISATION
- Offsite Digitisation Project (Rare Manuscripts and text)
- In-Campus Digitisation (Digitisation of rare and fragile document)
- Audio-Tape Digitisation
- Video-Tape Digitisation
- Digitisation of Micro-Document
- Digitisation of Newspaper clipings
- REPROGRAPHY
- Reproduction of AV document
- Reproduction of Printed document
- Reproduction of Digital document
- FORMAT CONVERSION
- Encoding
- ACD, WAV to MP3
- VOB, DAT to MP4
- TIFF, ARW to JPEG
- JPEG to PNG to JPEG
- JPEG to PDF to JPEG
- DOC to PDF to DOC, etc
- USER/ READER SERVICES
- Scanning
- Printing
- Photocopy
- Spiral Binding
- Audio Visual & Photo duplication
- Digital lab for user/ reader
- Provide Training, Orientation and consultation
- On-demand, compilation of topical bibliographies of the collection
MICROFILM & MICROFICHE COLLECTION
The Multimedia Section has a rich collection of microfiche and microfilm documents. The first main micro collection of the section was three microfilmed recensions of the kangyur and Tengyur- Lhasa, Narthang, and Cone-That were sourced from the Library of Congress. From the outset, the department invested in microfilm technologies and has since accomplished the microfilming and digitization of many rare texts.
S.No. | Collection Name | No. of text/ Volume | No. of Page/ folio | Digitisation status | Microform |
1 | Sanskrit Buddhist Text | 2830 text | 128943 pages | Scanning Completed, Editing under process | Microfilm and microfiche |
2 | Tawang Handwritten Kangyur | 937 text |
| Digital available | Microfilm |
3 | Tawang Golden Kangyur | 672 text |
| Digital available | Microfilm |
4 | Lithang Kangyur | 937 text |
| Digital available | Microfilm |
5 | Lhasa Kangyur | 812 text |
| Digital available | Microfiche |
6 | Narthang Kangyur | 812 text |
| Digital available | Microfiche |
7 | Cone Tangyur | 3325 text |
| Digital available | Microfiche |
8 | Tibetan Religious Works | 487 box | 2004 microfiche folio |
| Microfiche
|
9 | Report on Archaeological Survey of India | 38 box | 1872 microfiche folio | Scanning under process | Microfiche |
10 | Indian Archives and Museum | 5 box | 247 microfiche folio | Scanned | Microfiche
|
11 | Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscript of Various Govt. and Private collection | 49 box | 2648+ microfiche folio | Scanned | Microfiche |
12 | Journals | 11 box | 1518 microfiche folio |
| microfiche
|
AUDIO VISUAL COLLECTION
The resources of multimedia section includes tens of thousands of hours of teaching by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many other eminent teachers and scholars, as well as audio and video recordings of seminars and conferences and the academic programmes of the Institute.
- Audio recording in cassette tape: 7033 hours approx.
- Audio recording in MP3: 52037 hours approx.
- Video in VHS Tape: 1632 hours approx.
- Video in electronic format: 8516 hours approx.
DIGITAL TEXT COLLECTION
The Multimedia Section has rich repositories of digital documents and xylographs.
Sl. No. | ITEM | No. of TITLE |
1 | Shantarakshita Library Digital Text collection | 212 |
2 | BDRC Digital text collection | 26876 |
3 | LTWA Digital text | 2710 |
4 | Buddhist Sanskrit Manuscript from Micro format | 2830 |
5 | News paper Clip (1990-1996) | 14646 |
6 | Slides | 288 |
SOME OF THE MAJOR OFFSITE DIGITIZATION PROJECTS CARRIED OUT BY THE SECTION:
- Microfilmed of Tawang Golden Kangyur (86 Volumes, 672 Titles) and Tawang Handwritten Kangyur (120 Volumes, 937 Titles)at Tawang in 1993-1994
- Microfilmed Lithang Kangyur (108 Volumes, 937 Title) at Orissa in 1996
- Digitised Peking Ka-Ten (381 Volumes, 224450 pages) at LTWA, Dharamshala in 2010-2011
- Digitised Narthang Tengyur (3988 Title, 255 Volumes, 153241 pages) at Tibet House, New Delhi in 2012
- Digitised Gondhla Handwritten Kangyur (47 Volumes, 26694 pages) at Gondhla Village, HP in 2015
- Digitised Phuktal Handwritten Kagyur, (43 Volumes, 29531 pages) at Phuktal Monastery, Zanskar, Ladakh in 2016
- Digitised Narthang Kagyur, (102 Volumes, 791 Titles) at Phuktal Monastery, Zanskar, Ladakh in 2016
- Digitised Dege Tengyur, (213 Volumes, 128810pages) at Central Library, BHU in 2018
- Digitised Dege Kangyur, (103 Volumes, 55569 pages) at Mangtro Monastery, Ladakh in 2018
- Digitised Handwritten Kagyur (61 Volumes, 73557pages) at Tabo, Lahaul & Spiti, HP in 2018
- Digitised Tawang Golden Kangyur (94 Volumes) and Tawang Handwritten Kangyur (113 Volumes) at GNL Monastery, Tawang in 2022
LIST OF KANGYUR & TENGYUR AVAILABLE IN DIGITAL FORMAT
The section has rich collection of major editions of Kagyur and Tengyur. Namely,
- TAWANG GOLDEN KANGYUR
- TAWANG HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- NARTHANG KANGYUR
- PEKING KANGYUR
- DEGE KANGYUR
- GONDHLA HANDWRITTEN PROTO KANGYUR
- PHUKTHAL HANDWRITTEN PROTO KANGYUR
- TABO HANDWRITTEN PROTO KANGYUR
- THEMPANGMA KANGYUR
- LITHANG KANGYUR
- CONE KANGYUR
- SHELKHAR HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- RAGYA KANGYUR
- MONGOL EDITION KANGYUR
- DOLPO HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- STOK PALACE HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- PHUGDRAK HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- HEMIS HANDWRITTEN KANGYUR
- PEDURMA (Comparative Ed.) KANGYUR
- NARTHANG TENGYUR
- PEKING TENGYUR
- DEGE TENGYUR
- CONE TENGYUR
- SERDRIMA TENGYUR
- PEDURMA (Comparative Ed.)TENGYUR
