1National Informatics Centre, Bangalore, E-mail: veena@mail.kar.nic.in
2E-mail: devaraj@mail.kar.nic.in
3E-mail: rvenkat@mail.kar.nic.in
Based on a paper to the National Seminar on Information/Knowledge Organization in the Humanities, 9 –11 August 2005, Bangalore
Describes the implementation of ‘e-Granthalaya’ software (s/w) in the State/City/District Central Libraries (SCL/CCL/DCL), in the State of Karnataka, by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Bangalore. This package is developed in co-ordination with the Director of Public Libraries, Karnataka. The s/w package has also been implemented in other States -- Gujarat, Delhi, Lakshadweep, Chandigarh, West Bengal, Orissa, etc. The Package provides bilingual (one Indian language and English) and also multilingual (two or more Indian languages and English) support for data storage and retrieval.