Digital Library
It is always gives me good feeling to read books. I have interest in various topics from Science, Information Technology,Business, History....many more. I used to wonder is there any place in web ,we can go and read books published 100 years ago. We may not find book related to Science in school library published in 100 years ago. Why I am writing about this. I am one of the fortunate to work with a Digital Library Team.For the first time in history, all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind can be digitally preserved and made freely available, in every corner of the world, for our education, study, and appreciation and that of all our future generations.
The mission is to create a portal for the Digital Library of India which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Digital Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. This portal will also become an aggregator of all the knowledge and digital contents created by other digital library initiatives in India. Very soon we expect that this portal would provide a gateway to Indian Digital Libraries in science, arts, culture, music, movies, traditional medicine, palm leaves and many more. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to socioeconomic background or nationality.
Please have a look at this website. Where lot of books available in various topics.
http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/
I think this website is not user friendly. Lot of enhancement has to be done. But still this gives us chacne to know about old books published 100 years ago.