National Seminar on Open Access on Textual and Multimedia Content: Bridging the Digital Divide: brief report

Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a national seminar held at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, on 29-30 January 2009. Design/methodology/approach – This is a descriptive report. Findings – The national seminar focused on open access of textual and multimedia content looking at collaboration between two inter-university centres of the University Grants Commission (UGC), INFLIBNET (Information and Library Network) Center in Ahmedabad and the Center for Educational Communication (CEC) in New Delhi. Originality/value – It will be of interest to the library and information professionals especially to the media professionals across the country. It may also be helpful to the professionals of the Asian countries at some extend. A detailed version of this report published in the seminar website and it may also appear in the forthcoming INFLIBNET newsletter for the INFLIBNET members