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{{Infobox website<br />
| name = National Digital Library of India (NDLI)<br />
| num_users = {{increase}} 20,00,000+ (January 2019)<br />
| current_status = Active<br />
| location_city = [[Kharagpur]]<br />
| location_country = [[India]]<br />
| num_employees = >150 (January 2019)<br />
| website = {{URL|https://www.ndl.gov.in/|ndl.gov.in}}<br />
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| type = [[Education]]<br />
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| registration = Free<br />
| language_count = 10<br />
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The '''National Digital library of India''' is a project under [[Ministry of Education]], [[Government of India]]. The objective is to collect and collate [[metadata]] and provide [[full text index]] from several national and international digital libraries, as well as other relevant sources. It is a digital repository containing textbooks, articles, videos, audio books, lectures, simulations, fiction and all other kinds of learning media. The NDLI provides free of cost access to many books in the [[Languages of India|Indian languages]] and [[Indian English|English]].<br />
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==History and Timeline<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndl.gov.in/|title=National Digital Library of India|website=www.ndl.gov.in|access-date=2019-04-04}}</ref>==<br />
The Library was launched in pilot form in May 2016.<ref>''Business Standard'', "National Digital Library up in pilot stage", 25 May 2016.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/dig_lib.pdf|title=MHRD Digital Library Press Release|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202051920/http://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/dig_lib.pdf|archive-date=2017-02-02|access-date=}}</ref><br />
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The Library was dedicated to the nation on June 19, 2018, by union human resource minister [[Prakash Javadekar]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mhrd.gov.in/union-hrd-minister-dedicates-national-digital-library-india-nation|title=Union HRD Minister dedicates the National Digital Library of India to the Nation {{!}} Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development|website=mhrd.gov.in|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref><br />
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As of April 2019, NDLI hosts 4,58,25,715+ (4.5 [[crore]]+) items in its repository, with over 1,50,000 volumes in English.<br />
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==Languages==<br />
The scanning of Indian language books has created an opportunity for developing Indian language [[optical character recognition]] (OCR) software. Books in Urdu and Persian are also available at the NDLI. Examples include "''Aligarh kee taaleemi tehreek''" by Khwaja Ghulamus Sayyedain and ''Makateeb-e-Sanai'' by Professor Nazir Ahmad.<br />
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==Access and restrictions==<br />
User registration is open to users from around the world. However, contents from some popular sources are only accessible to registered users. Some of these registration-only works are from sources such as:<br />
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* World eBook Library<br />
* South Asia Archive<br />
* OECD iLibrary<br />
* Satyajit Ray Society<br />
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==Delivery formats==<br />
Access can also be had via mobile app, available for Android at Google Play.<ref>NDL mobile app for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhrd.ndl</ref><br />
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==Management==<br />
The Library is managed by [[Indian Institute of Technology]], [[Kharagpur]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Digital Library of India]]<br />
* [[Traditional Knowledge Digital Library]]<br />
* [[Panjab Digital Library]]<br />
* [[Open access in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Official website|https://www.ndl.gov.in}}<br />
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[[Category:Indian digital libraries]]<br />
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